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...Ramon Serrano Suner went on to Berchtesgaden for his third visit to Big Boss Hitler within two months. Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano met him at Salzburg. Day earlier Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III secretly visited the Fuhrer in Berlin. With so much diplomatic activity, and with the air war over Britain and the sea war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean gaining fury, the Second World War moved inexorably toward a new and greater climax...
...Tough, smiling President George Browne of the big American Federation of Labor stagehands' union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, has long wanted to be tsar of entertainment labor. Last year he tried hard, got a setback in a ruckus with the actors' unions (TIME, Sept. 11, 1939). Some 48 A. F. of L. unions are concerned in one way or another with show business, including those of the teamsters, upholsterers, costume workers, floor coverers, ornamental iron workers, bartenders. Last week 20 of them joined in a superunion: the Combined Theatrical Amusement Crafts. Its announced purpose...
...high above the water, with the wind howling and the bridge throbbing as if it were alive. Its eminent designer, Leon Moisseiff, 68-year-old builder of the Manhattan, the Triborough, the George Washington, many another mighty bridge, was unworried by its capriciousness. Builder Moisseiff, a refugee from the Tsar 50 years ago, a onetime radical, worked on experiments to correct its sway. So did engineers at the University of Washington, where a $20,000 scale model had been constructed and placed in a wind tunnel...
...Dukhobors ("spirit-wrestlers") congealed as a sect about 1700 in the reign of Peter the Great. By obeying only the "voice of God within," they sought to live in harmony, achieve Utopia. They soon developed a theocracy which, though as narrow as the Tsar's and Orthodoxy's, was at least of their own choosing. After generations of persecution, they were exiled en masse to Caucasia...
...apple of his eye, his pet project, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: three stories of fieldstone cottage, in whose 60-odd exhibition rooms and offices are being installed one of the greatest collections of memorabilia and historic junk ever gathered-a collection that ranges from a Russian Tsar's red-felt-lined droshky to Roosevelt's vast political and naval library, his hundreds of boxes of papers...