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Ousted from Berlin was Chief Commercial Attaché H. Lawrence Groves, 15 years in the service, and Trade Commissioner William T. Daugherty. That left the Berlin bureau halved. The London office was reduced from eleven to two. Offices at Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo, Riga were abandoned entirely. Thirteen others were closed throughout the world...
...publisher of the Post, renounce all voice in its management or disposal. For the balance of the estate he would remain co-trustee with American Security & Trust Co. While the case was being settled "Ned" left the American Hospital in Paris, whither he had gone after appearing in Riga, Latvia to file suit for divorce. While in Riga he announced intention to marry his companion, Mrs. Rose Douras van Cleve. identified by the U. S. Press as a sister of Publisher William Randolph Hearst's friend Marion (Douras) Davies...
...Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger." An alert deskman for the New York World-Telegram put 1 2 3 & 4 together and produced the following dispatch, purporting to come from Riga notorious (like Winsted, Conn, and Evanston, Ill.) as a source of outlandish stories...
Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga, son of a civil engineer, in 1898. When the Revolution started, he was 19. He enlisted in the engineering corps. After the War, he joined the Protecult, first Russian workers' theatre. His first assignment was Jack London's Mexicalia. In 1924 he completed his first cinema. Strike. Later, his pictures The Armored Cruiser Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World, photographically the most brilliant cinemas ever made, attracted the attention of Producer Jesse Lasky who gave fuzzy-haired, garrulous Director Eisenstein his Paramount contract, the world nothing...
...Russians (nearly all anti-Bolshevik) in Harbin hoped Japan would push farther north and pick a real quarrel with Soviet Russia. Last week Harbin was exciting because Tokyo had heard from London which had it from Riga that in Moscow last week highest officials of the Communist Party stood around a table upon which Josef Stalin banged his fist, explaining his "Harbin Policy": Peace. Tokyo was titillated by the possibility that this "inside dope" might be wrong, that Russia might fight...