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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German newsagency correspondent, were preparing to go back to Germany. They had been informed by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare that their permits to remain in Britain would not be renewed. Declared Correspondent von Crome: "There was no reason given. . . . I deny that the action was taken as a result of complaints of espionage." These three were believed to be the first German newshawks ever expelled from Britain in peacetime. This week Germany retaliated by asking the London Times to withdraw its Correspondent Norman Ebbutt from Berlin...
...Stockbridge, three concerts by the Boston Symphony under Dr. Kaussevitzky netted $1,800, caused organizers of the Festival to begin to talk of "an American Salzburg" and impelled the stately Boston maestro to urge that the number of summer concerts be increased and the Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate over to the Festival committee, which raised $16,000 in pledges for an orchestra pavilion to be designed by famed Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...
...their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill to finance a National Cancer Institute...
...them on his nimble fingers by the N. A. D.'s dapper President Marcus Levi Kenner of Manhattan. Deaf-mutes applaud by waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf who are also mutes never expect or hope to hear a sound. Their problem is not acoustics but ameliorating the disadvantages of deafness, most serious of which...
Whatever the cause may be, the facts demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt the worthlessness of an agreement if the procedure created to stop strikes is ignored and wildcat or unauthorized strikes result. It cannot be said that so far the United Automobile Workers of America have proven themselves to be a responsible body, with ability to live up to their contractual obligations. Manifestly, neither industry in general, nor General Motors in particular, can be expected to long tolerate such a complete disregard of its own rights...