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...Stopper" Smith. Still titular leader of the Democracy, Mr. Smith was among the first to reach Chicago last week, arriving almost a week ahead of time from his skyscraping office in Manhattan. His open purpose was to compress all non-Roosevelt factions into a solid bloc of votes to keep the New York Governor out of the nomination. Observing his activities, political experts pondered his motives. After his defeat four years ago he had said...
...Papen. Since this was the first appearance of Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen at a conference with a really big C.† the new German Chancellor was the focus of world attention at Lausanne last week. Soon cables carried the news that the titular head of Germany's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles"- is not nearly so domineering as expected, in fact is not domineering at all. London newspapers which recently scare-headed EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR could not deny last week that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen speaks with a soft intonation, sits for minutes at a time...
Died. Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole of Hawaii, 53, wealthy, cultured relict of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, longtime Hawaiian delegate to Congress (1903-1922); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Honolulu. Though retired as titular head of her people, she sought their welfare as a member of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, preserved their traditions at great luau feasts, where she served old-fashioned poi, had old-fashioned hula dances...
...that solemn yacht-lover, Vincent Astor, who describes himself as "head of the Astor family in the U. S." Roosevelt ambition plus Astor money plus the friendship of young John M. Franklin, resulted in control of I. M. M. of which young Mr. Franklin's father remains titular head. That the young men are determined to make the landed Astor money succeed on the high seas is the big new fact on Steamship...
...agricultural program proved unfeasible, but by 1927 there were nearly 20,000 Semites in Mexico, 75% of them concentrated about Mexico City. They peddled, drove taxis, set up small businesses, shrewdly undersold easy-going native merchants. Last spring the National Revolutionary Party, of which President Ortiz Rubio is titular head, started a violent campaign to oust Jews from Mexico. Permits allowing them to trade in the markets were recalled. As a result, some Jews in Mexico City are starving. All, says Correspondent Brenner, live in daily dread of a pogrom...