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...Keep the children in school!" was the warning three weeks ago of Frederick Cleveland Croxton, assistant to Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford in President Hoover's Unemployment Relief Organization (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner of New York pointed out that 1,000,000 children under 16 were estimated to be holding jobs, that in 1930 some 103,000 14-and-15-year-olds left school to work. "That is a condition which ought not to continue...
...Budapest, Johann Schmidt, wealthy merchant, returned from a trip to Vienna, found a young man in his luxurious bed, clad in Herr Schmidt's luxurious pajamas, reading one of Herr Schmidt's books of philosophy. Herr Schmidt summoned police, who charged young Ferdinand Kovany with many housebreakings. Housebreaker Kovany's story: He had lost his good job. had to give up his fine apartment, now lived by casual work. Without rest he could not work. In a hard bed he could not res:. So each night he broke into a big house, slept in a soft...
...Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria was in Bayreuth as usual last week. So was ex-Crown Princess Cäcilie of Germany, Prince Wilhelm of Wied who was reigning Prince of Albania for a few months in 1914; the Grand Duke of Hesse and a scattering of Russian, Greek and German nobility and ex-nobility. The weather was bad. Toscanini had his old rheumatism again. Many tickets had been cancelled; prices for room & board were reduced. The Festspielhaus restaurant had been "very tastefully decorated." Then enough people bought tickets at the last minute to fill the house, the weather cleared...
Because, lecturing in 1928, he had stated that Count Stanislaus Dohna, 80, one time Grand Master of German Freemasons, knew in 1911 that the Serbs planned to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand of Austria (nominal cause of the Great War) and took no steps to prevent it, eccentric General Erich Ludendorff was given a choice of paying 500 marks in fine or spending ten days in jail, by a court at Gotha, Germany...
...Augustus Otis resigned from the firm bearing his name as did Partner Mervin Clark Harvey. Both will go to E. A. Pierce & Co., buyer of the brokerage business of Otis & Co. Other influential Otis & Co. partners who have resigned include Joseph Oriel Eaton (no relation to Cyrus), Richard Inglis, Ferdinand Eberstadt. Cyrus Eaton remained, comparatively alone...