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...Mountain of Mahogany." The bedside telephone in Tiefenbrunn is linked by direct wire with a huge grey stone building on Unter den Linden in which tourists used to cash their letters of credit, dazzled by the splendiferous luxury of Germany's great Disconto Gesellschaft. The Government bought the building last year "as is" and it remained empty until last month. When the Ministry of Economics then moved in Dr. Schmitt exclaimed, "That mountain of mahogany is no desk for me! I want something smaller, with a big drawer for cigars...
Other elections from the Harvard faculty were as follows: Edgar Anderson, Franzo H. Crawford, Chester L. Dawes, Jacob P. Den, John F. Ebersole, Sterling P. Fergusson, Cyrus H. Fiske, Henry Jackson, Jr., Matt B. Jones, Donald H. Menzel, Richard S. Meriam, Harry R. Mimac, Leroy M. S. Miner, Arthur E. Monroe, Robert H. Pfeiffer, William C. Quimby, Sumner H. Schlicter, Carle C. Zimmerman...
...left the Senate: "Cause o' de Ku Kluxes. I was staying at a colored hotel when word comes to me that de Ku Kluxes wuz killin' all de nigguhs, some by just plain killin', some by drownin' and some by burnin'. Den that night, I found a note under my door. It said, 'Green, when we git back here we don't want to find you here,' and, Cap'n, I'm telling you dey sho' didn' find...
...base line most of the time Vines showed better than in Manhattan, ran the match to four sets. 6-4, 8-10, 9-7, 6-3. Next night in Washington Vines found himself, crowded the net continually, trounced Tilden 6-0, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Til den, erratic and off poise, plainly showed annoyance at linesmen and noisy gallery. Tilden's professional troupe, which includes also Vincent Richards and Bruce Barnes, will tour some 60,000 mi. this year through the U. S., Europe and the Orient...
...House on 56th Street (Warner). The story of a Manhattan residence. built for a bride in 1905 and re-opened as a speakeasy and gambling den in 1933, could contain material for a first-rate picture. The story of The House on 56th Street fails to do it justice. It is a gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box. Peggy Van Tyle (Kay Francis) enters it first as the happy bride of a slick...