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...Deal has made the seventh President's birthday a national political fiesta. Last week, at 36 Jackson Day dinners all over the U. S., $400,000 was raised (wiping out the deficit of the Democratic Party) and New Deal spokesmen let out a chorus of oratory matchless in volume. Unfortunately the Jackson Day chorus-instead of proving an overwhelming performance for which the antimonopoly speeches of Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson last fortnight were a curtain raiser-turned out mainly as a majestic anticlimax...
Thou God of might and matchless love...
Just three and a half decades ago His Majesty the German Emperor, Wilhelm 11, bestowed upon the President and Fellows of Harvard College a matchless collection of casts of German sculpture. It was this Imperial gift that assured the Germanic Association, founded only the previous year, the success of its aspiration to create in America a monument to German culture. A few years later Adolphus Busch donated the money to build, and Professor Bestelmeyer of Munich designed, the present Germanic Museum...
...tennis. But in the future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year after 35 years of guarding the abandoned Matchless Silver Mine, once worth $1,000,000 to her husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens...
Elsie de Wolfe was the first U. S. woman decorator, first to use chintz, first to use fake plaster curtains in the corners of her rooms. With a hard, nimble, worldly mind, no children, a first husband at 70, a matchless acquaintance among the royal, the idle and the rich, she has made a fortune out of selling the U. S. the French version of good taste. From Versailles she still advises her Manhattan staff, now headed by Mrs. Eileen Allen, on every new decorating job, ships French materials and antique mirrors...