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...political conferences that do best away from the sharp ears of the press. The Hotel Senator's 86-ft. bar is much favored by Sacramento's legislators in their more public moments of relaxation. Month ago, just before the Legislature convened, Proprietor Tom Hall called his architect, Gustav Albert Lansburgh, designer of San Francisco's Opera House. He said he had decided to redecorate his bar, rename it The Empire Room...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS-Gustav Mayer- Knopf...
...that even this week it will scarcely get down to action. As the President sped homeward, however, Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again-also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy" had all its original freshness and bloom...
...chiefly famed as a sprinter. Walthour & Crossley finished second in last December's Manhattan six-day race, warmed up for last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour of Europe starting with a six-day stop at Antwerp...
...Died. Gustav Oberlaender, 69, co-founder of Reading, Pa.'s Berkshire Knitting Mills, world's largest hosiery manufacturers; of heart disease; in Reading. In 1931 he set up a $1,000,000 Oberlaender Trust to promote German-American good-will by sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk...