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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telephone messages with A. Hitler through the latter's Ambassador Hans-Georg von Mackensen. The official Fascist press began to boast about fresh plums which Italy might expect from the Axis arrangement (Djibouti, Tunisia, Suez). And an honest reflection of the Anglo-French determination was at last made public. If all this added up to anything, it meant clearing the road for B. Mussolini to slow A. Hitler down-if he could-perhaps to hang back if he couldn...
...China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked with banners & posters the Chinese drove their guest. As if purposely accentuating his sympathy for China, the Japanese sent over 18 bombers that night. For two hours Pandit...
...crowded most other news off the front pages. The supposed suicide of Bolivia's Strongman German Busch and the death of Sidney Howard (see p. 39) got brief treatment the day after Russia and Germany signed their Non-Aggression Pact. But there were exceptions. The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger thought the second indictment of Moe Annenberg* was equally big news that day and gave a four-column headline to it. And throughout the week the New York Herald Tribune consistently played down the bad news, played up every item that spelled possible peace...
...Aging and ailing is H. (for Hiram) Edward Manville Sr., son of co-founder Charles B. Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. Since 1927 when control of the company passed into public hands and its management was given to professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks...
...monument to the career of 58-year-old Gus Edwards, who served as its technical adviser, The Star Maker, shrewdly aimed at the U. S. cinema public's demonstrated appetite for nostalgia and precocity, should be a turning point in the career of another veteran showman. The picture resulted from a meeting in Hollywood last year between ailing, retired Impresario Edwards and oldtime Moviemaker Charles R. Rogers, who had just been fired as production head of Universal. With the Edwards life story in his briefcase, unemployed Producer Rogers set out to do a picture on his own, went...