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Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg. 85; Richard B. Harrison (God in The Green Pastures), 68; Oscar (Waldorf) Tschirky, 66; Mahatma Gandhi, 63; King Christian of Denmark, 62; Charles ("Gabby'') Street...
...about their occasional broadcasts, Alda was proudly singing in a series of Puccini operas aired by American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. (TIME, Nov. 18. 1929). Last week Soprano Alda announced another enviable radio contract. With Meyer Davis' orchestra she will broadcast every Tuesday night this winter for the Waldorf-Astoria. And next week at a studio in the Waldorf-Astoria she will start taking pupils for opera, concert and for radio...
Collapse in the Waldorf, For three weeks Dutch, English, Russian and U. S. oilmen gathered almost daily in Room No. 2604 of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, seeking to reach an agreement by which markets could be kept steady, profitable. Last week the conference broke up without results. Secrecy hid all the conference's deliberations but reasons given for the breakdown by oilmen were numerous: 1) The Russians would make no agreement for more than three years, the defensive Englishmen and Americans sought a ten-year pact. 2) The Russians declined to limit exports to the 1931 level, refused...
Safe in Harbin, Lord Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, decided to send into the dangerous North a subordinate member of the British delegation, William Waldorf Astor, eldest son of Lord & Lady Astor. Promptly U. S. Delegate Major General Frank McCoy volunteered to send with Mr. Astor his aide, Lieut. William S. Biddie of Portland, Ore. (no kin to Philadelphia's Biddies). By airplane Scouts Astor & Biddle left for Tsitsihar, flying over Manchurian steppes infested with Chinese soldiers and bandits...
While the Supreme Court was pondering the test case of Champlin Refining Co. v. Oklahoma's Corporation Commission, President Charles Edward Arnott of Socony-Vacuum Corp. was playing host to a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. It was not a big party. The members all sat around comfortably in Room No. 2604. But it was important. The guests represented the leading oil producers of the world, gathered to come to terms with Russia. Momentous was the fact that for the first time Royal Dutch-Shell was prepared to forget the seizure of its wells in the Caucasus...