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...crowd of 18,000 gasped as Mrs. de Vries appeared to grapple with the Realmleader once, twice, thrice, before she got her arms around his neck and soundly kissed him. Neither grim old Feldmarschall August von Mackensen, who was sitting on Adolf Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards, with horror on their boyish Nazi faces, came bounding forward, the California Kisser blithely disengaged herself, was permitted...
...Elsie de Wolfe Inc., international interior decorators, rushed out last week photographs of their Lady Mendl (nee de Wolfe) standing beside King Edward's private plane, but the story got ahead of them, grew bigger than their publicity. They wanted only to point out that Lady Mendl, after decorating the flat of the King's Mrs. Simpson, was recently brought from Paris in the King's plane to lunch with His Majesty at Sunningdale and there commissioned to decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson...
...idea of forming pools to buy up surplus gasoline reached oilmen from Washington in 1933 when East Texas skimming plants were playing hob with the market. First pool buying was done in 1934 under the direct supervision of Secretary of the Interior Ickes acting as administrator of the petroleum industry. That year he said: "I feel that this plan is a real move toward stabilization of the oil industry." The program, however, did little good, largely because the East Texas refiners and some major companies could not be persuaded to join the pool. Month after his announcement, Secretary .Ickes made...
...afternoon last week a white-thatched, 72-year-old Virginia farmer named Jesse Hughes played proud host to Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Virginia's Governor Peery, Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke, other political bigwigs. Twenty-two miles out from Washington to his place in Fairfax County, they went to inaugurate with due ceremony a completely electrified farm equipped under Government auspices...
Whether French workers are to be permitted to continue "stayin" strikes, which in law are indistinguishable from seizure of their employers' premises, was last week the prime political issue before the Popular Front Government of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. The answer was "No," reluctantly admitted Minister of the Interior Roger Salengro after the French Senate had threatened a vote of no-confidence if it were "Yes." The answer was "Yes," indignantly replied Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, whose 72 votes are indispensable to Premier Blum's coalition majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Said Irish-faced M. Thorez...