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...Washington last week Dr. Gotthilf Paul Bronisch, Obermagistratsrat of the city of Berlin, sat down in the Mayflower Hotel's glittering main ballroom amid the flower of U. S. civic leadership. Around him were arrayed the mayors of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Duluth, Louisville, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Omaha, Richmond, Savannah, Toledo, Tulsa, Saginaw, Stamford, Lima, Joplin. Durham, East Orange, Amarillo, many another city large and small. Half a hundred strong, they were ranged at long tables before the speaker's stand, they and their aides and emissaries, their bulbous noses and their pot bellies...
...Washington for was to get money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote of the Conference was struck by Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia of New York City, loudest bloom in the mayoral bouquet...
...Natchez, Miss, three members of Herbert Reed's family were hospitalized and two suffered at home after a two-month diet of lead arsenate. Bought for flower spray and left on a kitchen shelf, the poison had been tracked into the family's food and dishes by roaches and bugs...
...Quadrumvir jolted last week up to the Army's highest rank of Marshal and into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight...
...Poet Joseph Auslander (The Winged Horse) in 1933, now lives in Manhattan. Tall, slender, black-haired, she is extremely shy, likes to cook and run her home, does not believe that poets must necessarily be temperamental or that they require a room of their own before their inspirations can flower...