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...press of public business last week forced President Roosevelt to cancel his engagement to open Chicago's Century of Progress Fair May 27. Neither could Vice President Garner go. Postmaster General Farley, the Administration's routine banqueteer and speechifier, took the assignment. Chicago's Mayor Kelly cheerfully declared a "Let's Go, Chicago'' week...
...Ericsson, made a down payment of $11,000,000, and received Ericsson stock of equivalent value. Then it asked for an audit. It was this audit, disclosing Kreuger's false statements, which wrote the final chapter in the Match King's career. Sosthenes Behn declared he would cancel the deal, asked for his money back. He has yet to see it. So he kept the Ericsson stock, which gave him a 20% voting interest. It was this block which, subject to the approval of the Swedish Government, was last week increased...
...House: ¶ Passed (249-to-118) a $543,000.000 Independent Offices appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. A substitute for the measure vetoed March 4 by President Hoover, the bill lopped $451,000,000 off veterans' payments and authorized the President to cancel Government contracts, furlough Army officers on half-pay, retire Federal employes after 30 years civil service and cut Army & Navy flying...
...sought for the President to: 1) retire Federal employes after 30 years' civil service and leave their jobs vacant; 2) furlough indefinitely on half pay any number of Army officers (the plan: to weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year's pay now given to surplus graduates from the Naval Academy; 5) readjust downward the extra flying pay now allowed Army, Navy and Marine aviators...
...musicians' protest cabled to Chancellor Hitler. In an open letter Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch recalled the attack made on Toscanini two years ago in Italy when he refused to conduct the Fascist anthem, how other musicians stood by him then. Sergei Koussevitzky going so far as to cancel concerts he had intended to give at the Scala, thus jeopardizing his chance of ever being invited to conduct in Italy again...