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...Secret Service with paying for the projected blowup of the Welland Canal. It was von Papen who went between Hitler and von Hindenburg, with the ultimate result that an Austrian-born painter of picture post cards became Dictator of Germany. To escape assassination by Nazi radicals who hate him, swank Franz von Papen became Minister in Vienna (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), has intrigued there ceaselessly ever since. His family are big in German industry, and big Austrian industrialists recently sat up all night in his legation with Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank. as the pot simmered (TIME, June...
...cash payment has been enforced, and in 1936 rural indignation is such that of 5,500 court orders obtained last year to enforce payment of tithes not one was executed. The Tithe Bill, as passed, is to end tithe payments as such by handing to the Church and certain swank "public schools" gilt-edged stock worth $350,000,000 and paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn the State will exact for the next 60 years from former tithe-payers sums which, if fully paid, will then wipe out the obligation forever in 1996 A.D. Up & down England...
...swank London audience assembled to hear Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, lecture on art. was amazed when he stumped down the aisle to the dais in a deep-sea diving suit. Beginning his talk through a microphone inside the helmet, Painter Dali, whose eccentric canvases created a furor in Manhattan nearly two years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), presently was overcome by heat, forced to remove his helmet. Keeping the rest of the costume on until his speech was over, he explained to newshawks: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging down deeply into the human mind...
These words of the Prime Minister, said Major Attlee, were "a thoroughly mean attack on the United States of America." Recalling that Stanley Baldwin was educated at swank Harrow School, the Major added as his parting shot: "It has been said that Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton. Abyssinia was lost on the playing fields of Harrow...
Alfred Emanuel Smith spent the week of the Democratic National Convention golfing with his sons at Southampton, L. I.'s swank National Golf Links of America...