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...west. It hovered above the city for a moment, then settled down at the airport. From the plane stepped dapper old Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey and the man whom Adolf Hitler expects to open for him the door to the rich Middle East, Germany's dreamland for half a century...
...though it had swallowed a bone. He looked down for a place to land. But Pilot Purchase was over Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon, and all he could see was 800,000 people in bathing suits. A hundred feet behind the beach was the only open space, Dreamland Park: a few tennis courts and flower beds. He dropped quickly, barely missing one hump of a roller coaster, bumped his Waco down in Dreamland, made a mess of the flower beds, was slightly cut about the face...
Stanley Baldwin desires and expects to be succeeded as Prime Minister by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, laborious and uninspiring Neville Chamberlain. In the Labor Daily Herald last week the Margate Conference was cartooned as a "Political Dreamland Movie Palace," presenting Mr. Chamberlain in the stellar role of a film entitled The Man Who Could Work Miracles (But Won't). The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the Conference in fact as the designated representative of the Prime Minister, and Mr. Baldwin had interrupted the three-month holiday he is taking on doctor's orders to come...
Eddie Cantor's newest vehicle is a variegated whirlwind of good music, original dance arrangements, and exciting comedy plot. Taken from Clarence Buddington Kelland's Satevepost story "Dreamland," "Strike Me Pink" shows the Timid Soul, Mr. Pink (Cantor, of course) in his adventures fighting Crime in an Amusement park...
...toward politicians seeking political favors. Mr. Ickes still battled in private for a hefty slice of the $4,880,000,000, but last week everything seemed to be going against him. Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell took away his Soil Erosion Service as the cornerstone for a new dreamland of relief. Administrator Hopkins, who had the advantage of tripping to Florida with the President, apparently got the honor of supervising the work relief appropriation...