Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a gesture toward Europe. Franklin Roosevelt, alone in his study, pondered sending a personal message (composed for him during the afternoon by Assistant Secretary of State Berle and Chief of European Affairs Moffat), to Adolf Hitler and President Benes, copies to go to London, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest. When he had decided he sent for Secretaries Hull and Welles. They sent for 14 correspondents, who arrived in pajamas and bedslippers under their topcoats, to receive the text of President Roosevelt's world gesture...
...International Psychotherapy Congress at Oxford, England, 43-year-old Hypnotist Francis Völgyesi of Budapest, who has put to sleep all the monkeys, foxes, swans and lions in the Budapest Zoo, told reporters how he once gave the eye to a pack of 18 hungry wolves. "I simply got the leader under control," he said, "and then waved the pack back just as if they were soldiers at a drill...
Died. Count László Széchényi, 59, one-time (1922-33) Hungarian Minister to the U. S., husband of Gladys Vanderbilt; of a heart attack; in a Budapest sanatorium...
...Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. Pro-Franco Spanish Cardinal Goma went to visit pro-Hitler Cardinal Innitzer in Hitler's Vienna, anti-Fascist Cardinal Verdier, of Paris, to attend a demonstration in his honor in democratic Czechoslovakia's Prague...
Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...