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When George Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria under the name of the Handel Largo. The Saxon composer wrote Xerxes as a comic opera, when he was depressed by Bankruptcy woes in London. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Handel's birth, Xerxes was revived last week by the State Opera in Berlin and by the music department at the University of Chicago...
Republican cries to rally around the old banner seem an echo of a lost cause, whose only successful champions, like Senator Vandenburg of Michigan, now owe only nominal allegiance to the party. The Democrats have lured into their camp many magnates of the Hooverite stamp, such as Mr. Schwab, who correctly interpret the assurance of the Administration, that private profit will continue, as the salvation of capitalism in an unfriendly world...
...Nothing Easier!" To keep Saarlanders happy and ready to hand over their francs, Germany's propaganda machine roared full blast. Ex-Schoolmaster Josef Bürckel, recently appointed Governor of the Saar, informed German capitalists, already saddled with a major unemployment problem, that they owe it to the Fatherland to give jobs at once to the 40,000 Saar unemployed...
Suicide Point and President Hayashi owe everything to Miss Kiyoko Matsumoto, an attractive but highly sensitive student of Jissen Girls College in Tokyo. Just two years ago Miss Matsumoto confided to a chum: "Dearest, I am bewildered to distraction by the perplexities of maturing womanhood. I can stand the strain no longer. What shall I do? I should like to jump into a volcano...
...tinkering with it Congressmen will be able to justify almost any figure they want to set for a cash payment in 1935. If they want to be ungenerous they might figure out that the veterans, as a group, should pay the Government the interest they are supposed to owe on their loans. If they want to be most generous they can figure out that the Government should pay the veterans the full $2,137,975,157 which the Legion asks...