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...only one banker has made himself notable for his self-dedication to the job of serious argument: James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg, 38, author, smart son of a smart father, librettist husband of a tuneful wife, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. Last week in Buffalo, Jimmy War burg concluded, with these words, the ablest of his many speeches...
...massive desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed...
Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They...
...remind my lifelong friend and neighbor, Governor Roosevelt, whose country estate on the Hudson, which became his 'farm' overnight, is not mortgaged any more than is my 'farm,' only six miles away [1,700 acres near Staats-burg]?that Herbert Hoover knows the meaning of 'farm mortgage' as few men in high position do. He was born on an Iowa farm. The ominous word 'mortgage' must be among his earliest recollections. It was burned into his memory and he has not forgotten...
Luther gets a girl for himself in Battle-burg, makes himself there a homesick kind of home. All day and every day for weeks the Tohannocks and the Hehonees stand in full Indian regalia in the capitol lobby for the assemblymen to see. All day, back home at Ball's Wharf, Sarah Sprouse, whose husband John has died, dreams of Luther. Finally she begins to write him love letters on the sly. But Bengo Sprouse finds out, tells his brother Willis, who is a deputy sheriff, and who has been making up to Sarah himself. When, after the Legislature...