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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressed at the Italian Foreign Office was the diplomatic nicety that Rightist Spain was an independent country, also hinted was the idea that Generalissimo Franco might choose to ignore Friend Mussolini's "advice." Result last week, however, of Dictator Mussolini's "discreet influence" was that no more British ships were bombed, no more British lives lost...
...Fulton Oursler was founding the tabloid New York Graphic for Bernarr Macfadden. Through a vaudeville friend named Norman Frescott, Winchell met Oursler, whose poetry Winchell had been cheerfully rejecting from the Vaudeville News. Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...
Died. Berthold Neuer, 57, vice president and general manager of William Knabe & Sons (pianos), authority on musical history, friend & adviser of many world-famed musicians (Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...something happened. To this day Grant believes that Diaz was a good president for Mexico, whose excesses, such as shooting arrested men without trial, were necessary to suppress lawlessness. A "renegade labor-union cast-off" tried to organize the miners, but older workmen, working with Grant's friend, the chief of police, soon ran him off. Why, then, did so many of the miners join Pancho Villa? Why did a fault-finding stockholder in the U. S. protest that there were too many sons, sons-in-law, nephews and brothers-in-law on the payroll? Why did a greenhorn...
TOCQUEVILLE AND BEAUMONT IN AMERICA-George Wilson Pierson-Oxford ($7.50). In 1835, during Jackson's second administration, Alexis de Tocqueville, an aristocratic radical, published his Of Democracy in America, won instant success in the U. S., France and England. At the age of 25, with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, Tocqueville visited the U. S. He traveled from Green Bay, Wis. to New Orleans, taking notes, talking to bankers, doctors, governors, plain citizens, spent nine months gathering material for a book which required four years to write. In this 852-page study, Author Pierson has carefully retraced the journey...