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After their parade the veterans adjourned to the Disarmament Conference hall. Plump "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, president of the Disarmament Conference, was there, as was the League's Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond. But the only disarmament delegate to attend was Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. Because Adolf Hitler refused them passports, no German veterans were present. CIAMAC's President Maximilian Brandiesz of Austria read a message from Berlin...
Holy Door. A brilliant floodlight filled one corner of great St. Peter's one night last week. A small train of prelates approached, led by the Very Rev. Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, plump Master of the Papal Household, a favorite of Pius XI and, it is believed, one of the two cardinals secretly nominated at last month's consistory (TIME, March 20)- secretly because, certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen...
Divorced. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime Mayor of New York; by Janet Allen Walker, plump onetime vaudevillian; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: desertion...
...pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
...bitter antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics...