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...understand there was a tree-planting at Oslo and that a street in Hamburg, my last post, is also being named after Washington...
...Communist Party, which won 4,590,000 votes in 1930 and was expected to make large gains last week, fooled everyone, made virtually no gain. Only 4,900,000 Germans voted for Comrade Ernst Thaelmann, "The Red Napoleon." In Hamburg, his native city, Comrade Thaelmann trailed both Hitler and Hindenburg; but in Berlin the big, blond, leather-lunged Red ran ahead of Hitler though behind Hindenburg...
Albert Einstein ended two studious months at California Institute of Technology last week. At San Pedro, Los Angeles' harbor, he boarded the Hamburg-American San Francisco with Mrs. Einstein, put his pipe and violin in his stateroom with the luggage, and sought out the dining salon for "a German meal cooked as only Germans know how to cook...
Amid these difficulties, candidate-picking began. First in the field against Old Paul was Communist Ernst Thalmann, whom the late New York World used to call "Germany's Red Napoleon." His worst enemies, the German Fascists, conceded last week that leather-lunged Comrade Thalmann, once a Hamburg stevedore and later a sailor, would get at least 6,000,000 votes. Some 38,000,000 ballots will be cast...
...high falsetto voice, he was the point of many a pundit's quip.* Died. Paul Moritz Warburg, 63, famed banker, board chairman of The Manhattan Co. and (also founder) the International Acceptance Bank; of hypostatic pneumonia after a long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg & Co., founded 1798), he married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., became a partner, like his brother Felix, when he emigrated to the U. S. in 1902. He was a chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, nurtured it as a member...