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Compromise came last week in the I. L. O. elections when Mr. Phelan withdrew, accepted the deputy directorship, paved the way for the election of Mr. Winant. Japanese Delegate Juitsu Kitaoka, annoyed at reports he opposed an American director, pulled for the winner...
Sponsoring this meeting was the world's most formidable cultural organization, Germany's Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture). Under the directorship of club-footed Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Kulturkammer controls all artistic activity that takes place within German borders. Important among its seven sub-chambers (literature, music, press, theatre, art, cinema, radio) is the Musikkammer, presided over by 65-year-old Peter Raabe, one of Germany's numerous lesser symphonic conductors. Every musician in Germany, from symphonic composer to drummer in a town band, must be a member of the Musikkammer. The Kammer fixes...
...stunt was a noisy Cample of the showmanship which in eleven years has enabled the bustling but prematurely grey Publisher McCraken to turn a few thousand dollars of borrowed money into an estimated 65% ownership of a strong chain of five Wyoming daily papers worth some $750,000, a directorship in the American National Bank, the vice presidency of Cheyenne's moneymaking Plains Hotel, a growing reputation as a natty, smalltown, journalistic inventor whose technique is spreading through the mountain States...
...trying to outdo Rockefeller. Another big group were reaping the just reward of philandering and boozing. ''Love nests rear nothing but 'cuckoos.' ' Then again, the hit-or-miss breeding of the human race "is largely to blame." His own breakdown occurred in 1929, after directorship of the Museum of the City of New-York, which he had worked ten years to found, was turned over to "a younger man from the wild and woolly West" (41-year-old Hardinge Scholle...
...Mendelssohn a few months later. In 1910 he did military service in the Caucasus. When he had served his term he went back to St. Petersburg and Moscow, composed more music, lectured on it, wrote articles about it. After the Revolution his industry won him the directorship of the People's Conservatory at Tiflis...