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...Rome, Perugia, Florence, Budapest and Berlin, streets were renamed for George Washington. In Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto cherry trees were planted in his honor. At Paris, Naples and Sofia there were public receptions. President von Hindenburg of Germany felicitated President Hoover. Throughout the U. S. there was much patriotic ado. Reason: the 200th anniversary of his birth...
...years ago Major James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle led a team of airmen through Europe with U. S. Curtiss-built military planes. At Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Prague, Berlin, etc. they made demonstration nights, talked serious business with chiefs of state, army leaders, ministers of transportation. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. announced one of the fruits of Salesman Doolittle's roadwork: a contract with the Turkish Government to survey and direct the building of airways and airports, build and operate factories for construction of Curtiss-Wright planes...
...From Sofia came rumors of a general Balkan moratorium. Premier N. Muchanoff of Bulgaria blurted out that his country must default on its debts if it did not receive more money from the League of Nations (Bulgaria owes the U. S. some $27,000,000). Greece had already made such an announcement. Two days later Premier Muchanoff thought better, denied that he had "said anything concrete on the subject." Harried Albania set up not one but five separate commissions to think of ways of raising more money. Rumania's Finance Minister, Constantine Argetoianu, was in Paris, begging. Spectacled King...
...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...
Until January Sculptor Katchamakoff was a Bulgar. Born in Sofia 33 years ago, he practiced law just one year. A plausible talker, he successfully argued himself out of a libel suit for modelling and exhibiting a head of the Mayor of Sofia in his cups. Entering the National Art Academy, he was promptly disowned by his father. In 1922, 1924 he won sculpture prizes in Berlin, Venice, came to the U. S., got a job making models for Hollywood super-spectacles. Came the talkies and the end of such pageants, but Sculptor Katchamakoff was not disheartened. He moved to Palm...