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Tipped off by M. Francqui, correspondents circulated among the delegates of Norway, Sweden. Denmark. Luxemburg and The Netherlands. They were told that recently representatives of these little nations and Belgium met in Stockholm, seriously discussed formation of an economic bloc of minor nations should the World Conference fail, and decided, in the words of a Scandinavian Delegate, "to seek a powerful leader around whom we could gather...
...motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places in Holland, England, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway, it has lighted highways so brightly that automobiles can speed at 60 m.p.h. without headlights. European police are delighted with it, automobile clubs indorse it, insurance officials grin broadly at the thought of reduced risks from night accidents...
...particular job will be to attempt to relieve economic relations between America and Denmark. ... I shall Into make relations much more intimate. No two peoples are so akin in outlook, thought and sentiment...
...shrilly gives fight and taps out marvels of dancing, bullfighting, footballing.* Like his predecessor in world popularity, Charlie Chaplin, he has "the wistfulness of ... a little fellow trying to do the best he can." In Germany he is Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki Kuchi, in Denmark Mikkel Mus and in Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity...
President Roosevelt made another deep bow to the ladies last week. He had already made Frances Perkins the country's first female Cabinet member by appointing her Madam Secretary of Labor. He had made Ruth Bryan Owen first U. S. woman envoy by appointing her Madam Minister to Denmark. Now, to be the first Madam Director of the Mint he chose, and the Senate confirmed. Nellie Tayloe Ross, hardy Wyoming plains-woman who in 1925 had the distinction of being first U. S. woman Governor when she filled the vacancy left by her deceased husband. Madam Director Ross...