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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only were Germany-Vatican relations threatened when Chicago's Cardinal Mundelein called Berlin's Adolf Hitler "an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that." Touched on the raw were two Philadelphia locals of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers of America. Last week they published an angry resolution: ". . . That egotistical anti-Labor dictator might have hung paper at one time, but that does not qualify him for the honorable title 'paperhanger.' . . . The only thing Hitler has hung in the past ten years is the liberty of the German people...
What galled unofficial Italian observers most about Spain's White Book was not the evidence of Italian intervention, but the startling evidence of cowardice and continued poor morale in the ranks of Italian volunteers. Wrote the Italian volunteers' divisional commander. General Mancini, on March 11: "Commanders must maintain their men in the highest state of exaltation. . . . This will be easy if they are talked to frequently without ever omitting on any subject a political allusion and always evoking in the soldiers' minds II Duce...
...business takes so little interest in its customers as show business. There is no redress for the spectator who is sold a poor evening's diversion. For a good evening, he must pay a large premium above the regular price of the ticket. Box-office employes are notoriously discourteous, seats are old-fashioned and uncomfortable, scarcely a dozen of Manhattan's 76 theatres are air conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre...
...interview, he lived in the lengthening shadow of his father's name. He had been First National's chairman since his father's death six years ago at 91, but active direction was in the hands of men like Jackson Reynolds and Leon Fraser. In poor health for the past three years, Mr. Baker boarded the Viking last February for what he called a "stag cruise-the first vacation since I was married 30 years ago." Stricken with peritonitis in mid-Pacific last week, Mr. Baker was operated upon by his yacht's physician, assisted...
...place, as private as possible, overlooking the sea. But she sometimes considers throwing herself over the cliff. Then, one foggy day, a plane crashes in the woods above her house. Rosamund is the only one near; she runs for help, has the battered pilot carried to her house. The poor fellow is so badly smashed that at one point everybody but Rosamund and the reader give him up for dead. He comes around eventually, turns out to be 24, good-looking, extremely sensitive, an orphan, and a gentleman through and through. His name is Clive. After he and Rosamund have...