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...visited the Fair if they were so inclined, found time for some golf. Then, more soberly and attentively than usual, they attended their speechmaking sessions, held in the great gilded ballroom of the Hotel Stevens. They gazed thoughtfully at an enormous shimmering blue tapestry behind the speaker's rostrum, diligently considering the problems of U. S. banking, model 1933. Good reason had they for devoting themselves to work rather than play. For the first time since their counting houses were all shut up and they were called "money changers in the Temple" by the President...
...that World's Fair visitors may have an opportunity of hearing Chicago's famous orchestra," trustees of the Chicago Symphony last week announced that its 1933-34 season would open a week earlier than usual-on Oct. 5, when round little Conductor Frederick August Stock mounts the rostrum in Orchestra Hall to commence his 29th season. Other Chicago Symphony news: ¶ The number of concerts (28 Thursday evenings and Friday afternoons, twelve Tuesday afternoons) will remain the same, but the price of season tickets will be lower. Subscribers will pay $2 to $5 less for the long series...
...Adolf Hitler's rousing peace speech touched off by President Roosevelt's disarmament appeal (TIME, May 29). In Berlin last week Nazi ideals jogged back to their pugnacious norm. Beefy Captain Nermann Wilhelm Göring, most potent Hitler henchman and Premier of Prussia, stomped up the rostrum of his Diet to tell Prussian Deputies his plans for their Ministry of Education...
...after day last week Vice President Garner mounted his Senate rostrum, turtled his chin gravely down into his collar and ordered big-bodied Sergeant-at-arms Chesley W. Jurney to proclaim as follows...
...Kroll Opera House, temporary seat of the Reichstag, were jammed. The entire diplomatic corps was there; deputies and Nazi officials jammed the aisles. Prominent in the distinguished visitors' gallery was Former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, in uniform. In his brown shirt, Adolf Hitler soberly mounted the rostrum and began to read his speech, seldom lifting his eyes from his manuscript, indulging in none of his usual oratorical flourishes. Excerpts...