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...White House lawn last week Franklin Roosevelt shook hands with a king. It was the first time since 1939 that the President had entertained one (Great Britain's George VI). This king was George II, nationless monarch of Greece...
...world agreed with Lübke, 19th-Century German art historian, that the Sistine Madonna "is, and will continue to be, the apex of all religious art." Queen Victoria thought Raphael "delightful" and refined. His Sistine Madonna became almost as familiar a Victorian figure as that of the reigning monarch...
General Von Mackensen, the German Ambassador to Italy is the actual ruler of the country, Salvemini claimed. He supplants the monarch, and the falling predominance of German armed might dictator in the control of national affairs...
Last week, the uniformed monarch received New York Timesman Cyrus Sulzberger, sat him down on a little sofa, graciously accepted one of Timesman Sulzberger's Iranian cigarets (though he usually smokes American brands only), and spoke the mind that was not his with perceptible overtones of irony...
...Wall Street medals when he recovered from a pre-crash partnership in the old Otis & Co., went into business for himself. A brave man with a shrewd sense of the times rare in the nostalgic Wall Street of the thirties, he specialized in "little blue chips" (Square D, Monarch Machine Tool, Cleveland Graphite Bronze, Victor Chemical), while the rest of the underwriting fraternity still clung to the dwindling lists of 'more "respectable" (i.e., larger) corporate offerings...