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...price, the same technique was used to let the Reich's Reds know how U. S. Reds felt about the German attitude toward the Spanish Revolution (see p. 18). Hour and a half before sailing time, there was a sudden burst of firecrackers outside the Bremen's pier. In unison 150 men & women, attired in evening dress and stationed about the decks, stripped off their coats, displayed white sweat shirts on which was splotched in red paint: END NAZI WAR MOVEMENTS DOWN WITH NAZI INTERVENTION IN SPAIN. Anti-Nazi pamphlets were handed out to astonished passengers...
...clock one morning last week in Manhattan, Negroes of all sizes, shapes and shades began gathering at an uptown pier on the Hudson River. Unmolested by police, the blackamoors shouted, stomped, sang, strummed. By 6 o'clock there were 2,000 of them. Then up rolled a big, blue Rolls-Royce out of which popped a little brown man clad in grey suit, panama hat, white shirt and honey-colored tie in which gleamed a $5 gold piece. "Here comes the Body!" bellowed followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine. The little man boarded one of two excursion boats...
...such singers as Bruna Castagna, Anna Leskaya, Rosa Tentoni. Edward Molitore, Norman Cordon. Cordon, a North Carolina basso, used to sing on the Baume Bengue radio hour, made a small hit with the Metropolitan Opera's late spring season (TIME. May 25). C In Atlantic City the Steel Pier Opera opened its ninth season, with Henri Elkan conducting Martha. Ambitiously its repertoire included Bach's Phoebus and Pan, Beethoven's Fidelia, Debussy's L'Enfant Prodigue...
Early next morning the Enterprise was warped into a pier at Haifa, Palestine. A gangplank was run ashore and perspiring British sailors began unloading the personal treasure of Ethiopia's fugitive Emperor: six automobiles, ten tons of trunks, boxes, bales and other personal baggage, a pet python, 100 steel-bound cases containing coins and bullion. Only a pistol shot away lay the Italian steamer Carnaro loaded with pilgrims for the Holy Land...
Last week U. S. Citizen Simonds radioed ahead to Manila for an armed guard to meet him and his wife at the pier. When the Reliance docked, he went ashore behind four policemen to protest to U. S. High Commissioner Frank Murphy, took rooms at a Manila hotel. To newshawks he said: "One of my German friends who openly sympathized with me was attacked and beaten. I feared they would attack us. ... The officers and members of the ship's crew, however, treated us fine...