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...banner-headlined Secretary Hull's "very earnest" regrets in response to the German protest against Mayor LaGuardia's crack week before, ignored both U. S. protest and Nazi explanation. At the same time, however, the press did quit belaboring the U. S., becoming absorbed in the 40th anniversary as a soldier of Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
Last October Italy's Queen Elena passed the 40th anniversary of her marriage to King Vittorio Emanuele III and in honor of that event last month the papal Osservatore Romano, referring to her for the first time as Empress of Ethiopia, announced that Elena would receive this year's Golden Rose. Last Sunday a sheaf of gold blooms in a silver vase was brought into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre...
...full cast had gathered in the Opera House to rehearse for the 40th time the third act of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi, scheduled for its U. S. première this week. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett was singing the role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied...
...seriously because Mexico's gay Juarez was always just across the Rio Grande River over 2^ toll bridges. Lately the city has been wide-open in defiance of State law. What annoyed the city's barkeepers last week was that the inspectors arrived two days before the 40th annual convention of the American National Livestock Association brought 1,500 of the primest U. S. cattlemen to town...
...hrer. Corporal Hitler, in a plain brown tunic with a large swastika just above the left elbow, saluted General Ciano who returned the salute. They talked for four hours. Simultaneously in Rome congratulatory messages poured in upon King Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena, for the day marked their 40th wedding anniversary...