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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the French paid the price, and as Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu and French Ambassador Rene Massigli signed Hatay away at Ankara, at Paris French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Turkish Ambassador Suad Davaz initiated a treaty of mutual assistance. Out of the Hatay deal France was able to wangle only a few concessions: minorities who want to leave the territory within 18 months will be able to do so with all their goods and cattle; the northern slopes of Jebel Akra, a mountainous part of Hatay largely populated by Armenians, will go to adjacent Syria...
...dependable artist in an enormous repertory (57 roles). In two operas, Verdi's Otello and Halevy's La Juive, critics found him first-rate. Although a little worn at the edges, Martinelli's voice is still serviceable. To his sunny, bouncing personality, his fellow artists paid tribute at the completion of his 25th season last year (TIME, March 28, 1938). Last week, as Martinelli vacationed in Italy, the Metropolitan announced that it had signed him on for the 2jth year-a record for a big-league tenor. Chief Martinelli project for next season: his first Wagnerian role...
...Highest Paid managing editor in the U. S. is the News's Harvey Deuell, who last year drew a salary of $140,000. The managing editor of the News has to com press into one-fourth as much space enough news to keep the paper competitive with the bulky Times and Herald Tribune. News stories, unlike conventional newspaper stories, start at the beginning, move with swift narrative pace to the end. Big, shaggy Harvey Deuell learned this trick while on the city desk of the News, where he used to rewrite nearly every important story. He had a scientist...
Among the 22 early birds: Benjamin ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, demon speculator in oil, gold, airplanes; rich Long Island widow Clara Adams, inveterate first tripper who is trying to round the world in 16 days (for passage on the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 she paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship...
...last week's excursion, the corporation chartered two Pullmans, took along Mr. & Mrs. George Smith of WWVA, as chaperons. In Manhattan all paid a preliminary visit to the Fair, that night rehearsed from five till nine. They rehearsed again next morning, attended West Vir ginia Day at the Fair, that night attended Hellzapoppin, where the Steele Sisters joined the fun, sang from the stage. After Sunday's broadcast the party pulled out at 9:35 p. m., got home in time for work Monday...