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Exactly one hour after the League Assembly had voted to lift Sanctions from Italy and refuse succor to Ethiopia, Herr Greiser marched into a session of the League Council and with calculated insolence of manner addressed in German the luckless Council President, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose handsome young face was soon beet-red. In unprintably coarse language Herr Greiser attacked Mr. Lester to his face on personal grounds and demanded a free hand in Danzig for Nazis to administer their brand of "law and order...
...Yorkers who had heard her in the popular-priced Hippodrome performances and in the Stadium's summer opera. The Castagna Carmen is a jolly, rich-voiced woman who sings with authority and acts as if she thoroughly enjoyed being the life of the party. Back as the luckless Don Jose was Armand Tokatyan. for eleven years (1922-33) a leading Metropolitan tenor. Newcomer was pretty little Natalie Bodanskaya, 22, who grew up in a $9-a-month, cold-water flat in Manhattan's slums. Soprano Bodanskaya made her debut as the timid Micaela, won a warm ovation...
Meantime the lame-duck Sarraut Government lashed about for foreign exchange speculators to tag as franc raiders, expelled one luckless Pole from the country as an example, discussed innumerable measures for the "defense'' of the franc, hoped it could pass on to the incoming "Popular Front" the unpleasant task of actual devaluation. Cried Finance Minister Marcel Régnier: "So long as I am Finance Minister there will be no measures restricting the gold standard. . . . We have ample reserves for our defense and the Bank of France possesses every means of action needed...
...lobby the luckless cameraman was identified as Frank Muto of Hearst's International News Photos, who had bought a seat early, kept his camera hidden until the chance came to snap the conductor bowing his goodbye. The audience filed out denouncing the Hearstling as a "desecrator," a "barbarian," a "vandal." But Frank Muto Was unabashed while he waited to get his camera back. One blazing-eyed young woman marched up to him and flayed him for having "marred the ending of a great historic concert." "But it might have been a grand picture," retorted Frank Muto...
Thus television claimed its first victim in the U. S. Engineer Lawrence might have been the first victim anywhere had not another luckless televisionist fatally fumbled an adjustment year ago in London's Crystal Palace (TIME, March...