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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things dragged on. Latin American diplomats dodged the issue many a time until last week. Then Pan American Union's governing board performed a judgment of Solomon. Ignoring both camps, they chose as the new chairwoman lissome Señora Ana Rosa de Martinez Guerrero of Argentina, who has no commitments in either camp and speaks no English, is not expected to visit Washington often...
Another date which official Italy chose to forget was the second anniversary (Nov. 6) of the now defunct anti-Comintern Pact. The Government exchanged no congratulatory notes with Co-signers Japan, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Manchukuo...
...after his son's birth painted a store sign, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," into a picture. Curly-headed Son Mark is now saving pennies to buy his father a paint brush for his birthday. A highlight of the current show is Still Life with Ferdinand, the toys Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking...
...custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies. He has made his Humanists work at their rather insubstantial faith by devoting themselves to self-improvement (through art, music, etc.) and to human improvement, through cooperation with "progressive" organizations. Hence Dr. Potter chose, from among 20-odd causes recommended to Humanists, the six rosebuds represented at last week's meeting...
Last week, with Paramount, RKO and MGM, dickering for his picture, the Rev. Mr. Friedrich, movie producer and parson too, looked around for a typically U. S. town to test audience reaction to the film. He chose Joplin, Mo., birthplace of Cinemactor Beal...