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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hjalmar Schacht, the German financial wizard who was then beginning to steer the Third Reich into the economics of barter dealing and autarchy. Helmuth Wohlthat quickly rose in power and position until he became Field Marshal Hermann Göring's chief foreign exchange expert. Since last year he has controlled the entire German export industry...
Obviously a mere whaling conference was small-time stuff for such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would...
Though 61-year-old Lionel Barrymore makes expert use of his wheel chair, a prop dear to a character actor as sword & cloak to a romantic hero, in scene-stealing honors 8-year-old Bobs Watson comes off best. Youngest son of an oldtime actor who has four other children in the movies Cinemactor Watson has appeared in 29 pictures, now earns about $800 a week He got the role of Pud after its Broadway incumbent, 8-year-old Peter Holden, was judged too mature for the part. Swamped by autograph seekers at the preview of On Borrowed Time...
...links in Elizabeth, N. J. I made a hole in one. It was my 23,990th hole in match play. Does anyone else know how many holes they had played before having this stroke of luck? That is what it is! Out of the millions of players very few expert amateurs or professionals have had it, proving that skill in the game has nothing to do with it. It also shows I have played 52 courses...
Best thing in The Sculptor's Way is Author Putnam's pellucid outline of human and animal anatomy. An acknowledged expert on the subject, she believes that sculptors should know it thoroughly before they go in for compositions in mere "mass" or abstraction. Her favorite point: that any animal's bony structure is essentially the same as man's. A horse's hocks are his heels; birds have knees...