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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confirms what I've often said about the splendid news service you give...
...will the Congress work with Hoover?" The question was and is often asked. An inkling of an answer appeared last week while the House Appropriations Committee was considering the Budget Bureau's figures for running the Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault to find with Budget estimates it is that they are too large. But at this hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation...
Chinese alibis being what they so often are, it was freely rumored that Yen and his Shansi were at best holding aloof and at worst were likely to attack Nanking. Last week, however, the Marshal pompously approached "Southern Capital" upon his private train, accompanied by wife and retinue. At the station stood slender, waspish President Chiang Kaishek, and strapping War Minister Feng Yu-hsiang. As Yen joined Chiang and Feng, press photographers snapped "China's Big Three...
...inquisitive glance has been cast toward the tiny, exquisite person of Mme. Katsuji Debuchi, wife of the newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. It is known that Mme. Dubuchi in her home wears the flowered silken kimonos of Japan's ancient mode, and that her hair is often coiled intricately in fashions ordained by a remote Japanese coiffeur. Certain insufficiently informed persons deduced there from that Mme. Debuchi was an old school Japanese woman, that she opposed the modern trend of her countrywomen toward emancipation...
...world-and the Cleveland Orchestra is included in that number. . . . And probably the principal reason it can stand up among the world's greatest is the fact that it has had one conductor for ten years. The idea that an orchestra must have a guest conductor every so often is like a series of companionate marriages. About as soon as the women begin to get used to one man, they have to start all over again and learn someone else's faults. . . . An orchestra ought to be as sacred as a toothbrush...