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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself spiritually for his grueling week of speeches Der Führer went on the eve of the Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely...
...pomp was lavished on these foreign envoys. Housed in sleeping cars in a Nürnberg freight yard, they shared a crude drawing room, had to walk down the tracks for their baths. Only official recognition of their presence was a tea with Hitler at which the Führer moved among the tables, chatting with them. Night before envoys of the U. S., Britain and France arrived, toucan-beaked Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels gibed that democracies were "stupid cows going to the slaughter house...
Shirt-Sleeve Interview. Rare pleasure of twelve favored foreign correspondents was a chatty interview with Herr Hitler. Informally meeting them in the room of Frederick Barbarossa in the 12th Century castle dominating old Nürnberg, Der Führer answered queries sometimes freely, sometimes directly, sometimes evasively...
...farm near Ausable Forks, N. Y., Artist Kent was surprised to hear of all the fuss. "I think it's a swell thing when people want independence and I think it's the most American thing one can do to wish them luck," said he. "In Puerto Rico a large part of the population is asking for at least the right to a plebiscite. It seems to me as an American that, speaking through the pen of the Eskimos, if the people of Puerto Rico want to be free, God bless them...
...deepwater shipmasters and licensed deck officers, began holding international races of one nautical mile in New York Harbor, first of which was won by the crew of the Norwegian Segundo. In 1933, after the race had been increased to two miles. Robert L. Hague of Standard Oil Co. of N. J. donated a silver trophy to be presented to the crew which won three races, and next year led in forming the International Lifeboat Racing Association, Inc. Last week the eleventh annual race, off Bay Ridge shore, brought out a high-spirited and representative maritime crowd,"including snipping officials. Organizer...