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...means decided to accept him as persona grata. Ignorant or careless of diplomacy's rigid code, Chancellor Hitler had committed the unheard of blunder of dispatching an envoy without the prior consent of the nation to which he is accredited. This left Austria free to administer a stinging snub which would make Adolf Hitler the laughing stock of Europe. In Vienna it was said that Benito Mussolini was strongly urging Austria to snub Der Führer...
Across the snub nose of many a U. S. Army bomber is the proud motto: "Mors et Destrnctio" (Death & Destruction). Last week the Army Air Corps made plans to purchase $30,000,000 worth of Death & Destruction within the next three years. First step toward acquisition of 1,000 of the world's finest fighting aircraft will be the purchase of 80 new high-speed bombers to be delivered in 1935. With contracts to be let by competitive bidding. Army officials expect the new bombers will have a top speed of 250 m.p.h., cruising speed of 220 m.p.h., ability...
...nude and copied clothed to fool her jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down on an Andalusian hill, Goya built a fire, welded the axle with his hands, caught a chill which deafened him for life. Coarse, snub-nosed, his face creased by excess, Goya, in spite of his duchess who used to come to his studio to be rouged by him, worked incessantly. He painted courtiers, decorated churches, produced Los Caprichos, his most famed etchings. These showed madmen, convicts, prostitutes, gluttonous monks, himself enticed...
...able Ambassador Sumner Welles, known to be antipathetic to the Grau San Martin regime, was about to be withdrawn. By midnight the rumor became certainty with an official announcement from the President. Ambassador Welles was to be succeeded by Assistant Secretary of State Jefferson Caffery. But. as a direct snub to the Grau Government, Mr. Welles was to return to Havana for a brief period, still U. S. Ambassador. When Mr. Caffery succeeds him it will be as an unofficial "observer," free to confer with and advise politicos of all parties. The Grau or any other Cuban Government will...
...When seven members of a sect caller! Bible Researchers at Lichtenstein refused to vote and distributed handbills on Germany's election day reading "Jesus Is Our Leader," police took it as a snub to Leader Hitler, arrested all seven...