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That afternoon he had had a secret conference with Old Paul von Hindenburg (still head of the German State, still able, technically, to demand the resignation of Chancellor Hitler) to which not Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath but Nazi Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick was the third party. Now he had to write a speech that was not for Germany alone, but for the entire world to hear. Hours passed, the door remained locked. At 4 a. m. the tired secretary emerged to say that the first draft had been completed...
...from unemployed last week was the prince of U. S. bar-makers: James ("Jimmy") Mont, 29, a slim, Manhattanized Turk. He was an unsuccessful interior decorator until in June, 1932, he got the idea of using fancy bars as a wedge to redecorate people's apartments. He would sell a bar that looked fine in his Modern Salon Co.'s Manhattan showroom but looked like a fair carrousel in the customer's apartment. Then Mont would redecorate the room to match the bar, the whole apartment to match the room. He made more ornate bars, got bigger...
...official who neither marched with the White Guard nor reviewed them from the Presidential Palace was Premier and Minister of the Interior Horacio Hevia. Possibly with an eye on the Presidency himself, he resigned in protest at the parade...
...sidedness of a partnership with Government was last week amply forecast. In adjoining columns of many a morning newssheet appeared parallel accounts 1) reporting the Administration's plans for raising prices and relaxing the anti-trust laws to prevent useless competition; 2) reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ickes, having opened ten sealed bids for 400,000 barrels of cement for Boulder Dam. found them all uniformly $1.29 a barrel, up 20? since two month? ago. Angered, Mr. Ickes demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether the companies had entered into illegal price-fixing agreements. Not inconsistent were...
...week with the oil industry worse off than in March, oilmen again looked to Washington. With chaos, caused by Texas, looming, Governors Murray of Oklahoma and Landon of Kansas met in Oklahoma City and sent emissaries to Washington to help draft a bill which would make Secretary of the Interior Ickes virtual dictator over their industry with power to bring the East Texas or any other field into line. Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Petroleum Association, turned up in Washington from Oklahoma and declared that "not only every oil State but every element in the oil industry, including factions...