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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter-in-law. Son Phillippe had been quoted in Manhattan...
...international arrangements of Central and Eastern Europe having all the reassuring stability of a charlotte ruse, the end of a definite policy for Poland can do more than rock the boat. And, whatever the world might have thought about Pilsudski's policies, at least they were definite. He built his house quite discreetly upon the foundation of amity with Germany, his next-door neighbor on both sides. Hard for members of democracies to realize is the truth that when dictatorships end, programs usually follow suit. It is to be hoped that in the looming grapple for the reins...
Frenchmen are still submitting to the "peeping" of German planes coasting along their secretly built frontier defenses (TIME, May 6), but six Italian pursuit planes rocketed up last week when a German ship tried to peep at Benito Mussolini's so-called "Air Gibraltar," the great military airport on Italy's northern frontier near Sesto Calende...
...Cleveland he has two studios, one downtown for work, another for parties at his swank country place. "Beaverbrook." The Beaverbrook studio is built at the water's edge so that Ceramist Ait ken can shoot ducks from the window. All the furniture in this studio has been specially designed by Ceramist Aitken, from the polished maple radio to the bronze portrait of himself. The ceramics in his bathroom are of standard design...
...years capable Conductor Karl Krueger has built up a Philharmonic Orchestra in Kansas City, attracted great audiences. Season's end found them only $1,000 in the red, and with 17,500 season tickets already sold for next year's extended season. But $25,000 more in underwriting pledges is still required...