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...what he asked, made him in fact Dictator. By way of passing his coup off suavely Dictator Machado left Havana on a brief fishing trip, tried to appear in U. S. eyes as much as possible like President Hoover, returned to his Palace, waited. At the State Department "grave concern" about the Cuban situation was admitted for the first time by Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. But, quoting his patron and one of his predecessors as Secretary of State, Elder Statesman Elihu Root (in whose law office he was apprenticed), Mr. Stimson intimated that there will be no "intermeddling or interference...
...Stimson's speech dwelt, of course. primarily upon economics.* His first concern was to relieve President Hoover of the political responsibility for the business depression. Persuasively by rhetorical questions and answers he argued that the slump was worldwide, that its causes antedated the Hoover Administration, that the U. S. was suffering less than other countries. He insisted the Democrats would have lost their heads in such a crisis, that conditions would have been much worse. He lavished praise upon President Hoover for the "prompt and effective" steps he took last November to minimize the effects of the stockmarket crash...
...seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly easy to obtain in Russia, popular fury could not thus be roused to national frenzy merely because the No. I Soviet meat man was supposed to have taken a bribe...
...Further concern of Master General Gillet are the 12,000 sisters of St. Dominic and sisters of the third order of St. Dominic (lay organization...
Children seldom care whether a story is old or new. They do not concern selves with such portentous events as operatic premieres. It was the them-grown-ups last week who appeared most impressed by the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (A Naughty Boy's Dream), also written for children and given on a double bill with Hansel und Gretel. They were importantly aware that Ravel is considered the foremost contemporary French composer. Some had heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely...