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...golden wedding anniversary at home, spent it instead as head of the U. S. wheat delegation telling the other nations that the U. S. had changed its mind, was emphatically in favor of limiting wheat production. With him Mr. Morgenthau had an expert of the Federal Farm Board, Georg C. Haas to give technical advice. Third member of the U. S. delegation was Frederick E. Murphy, Republican publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Murphy's fame rests principally on the fact that in 1921 he proposed a "ten-year plan" to the farmers of the Northwest, a plan...
...among its members. By his shrewdness in backing Handsome Adolf against the field several years ago Krupp von Bohlen last week restored his firm to the dominant political position in German industry that it occupied under the Empire with his wife, the great Bertha. The banks were next. Dr. Georg Solmssen last week resigned as president of the Central Association of German Banks and Bankers; Dr. Otto Christian Fischer succeeded him. Werner Dietz was appointed to membership as Nazi "liaison official." He talked turkey to his fellow members at his first board meeting: "The banking system is inflated and interest...
...General had been German Chancellor up to last week since the days of gruff ungracious General Count Georg Leo von Caprivi who succeeded Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's Finger." Last week the Chancellorship fell like a ripe pippin into the calmly outstretched hand of swank, sardonic, intriguing Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher who is a full general...
...mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real gas flames, 10 to 40 ft. high, for the Magic Fire scene. In Die Walküre sang Soprano Elsa Alsen, Basso Fred Patton. Tenor Georg Fassnacht Jr. from the Freiburg Passion Play. In Aïda were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Gina Pinnera...
...granduncle Georg, who had once been a conjurer, he lived in thrilling awe. Though the old man was dying of heart disease, he put on many a magic show to please the child. Afterwards, when his uncle was lying on his deathbed, he stole the magic paraphernalia, put on a show of his own at the village inn. Only the quick wit of his goddess, Eva Veeders, who could turn cartwheels in & out of rooms without brushing the doorposts, saved him from disgrace...