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...full of misgivings, called Adolf Hitler to the chancellorship (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933), he insisted that as a "safeguard" Lieut. General Werner von Blomberg, an aristocratic brother officer in whom he had utmost confidence, be made Defense Minister. Last week the Army's attitude depended on General von Blomberg, custodian of the military heritage of Feldmarschall von Hindenburg. Would he stand for the coup...
President Conant said: "Mrs. Lee, as President of Harvard University and on behalf of the Governing Boards I accept with gratitude your gift of a library of legal medicine. We appreciate most sincerely your generosity, and we are pleased that you have decided to make this University the permanent custodian of this valuable collection...
...with a volume containing a new issue of Soviet stamps, sent by Commissar Litvinoff. ¶By two strokes of his official pen the President: 1) vetoed a bill which would have guaranteed minimum incomes to substitute mail carriers in the Post Office; 2) abolished the office of Alien Property Custodian established during the War to take over some two billion dollars worth of firms and securities owned by Germans and Austrians, most of which have now either been returned to their owners or dissipated by mismanagement and peculation. ¶ At "street fair" given by the National Women's Press...
...young man, are my custodian." said Samuel Insull smiling as he shook hands with Burton Y. Berry, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy, in the cabin of the Exilona's captain. Still smiling he turned to Police Commissioner Nail Bey and said, "If I ever come to Turkey again I will look you up. I hope you will have no official reason to look me up." Then young Mr. Berry signed a receipt for the person of Samuel Insull and the Turks, bowing, departed...
Next day as the Exilona was sloshing across the Aegean, Samuel Insull sat down in the saloon with his custodian, began to see the advantages of eating American meals in the company of Americans. Growing expansive over a sandwich he told tales of strange and unusual hardships among Turks and Greeks. To a passenger who laughingly remarked, "I would trade my money for yours," he retorted, "That's the greatest insult you could cast on me. I have repeatedly said I have sunk everything I had in my business and that's the truth." Once he grew gruff...