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Congressmen considerably less unfavorable to the Alliance than Mr. Otto E. Passmann of the House subcommittee for foreign aid have tended to judge the Alliance by a set of important but essentially arbitrary criteria. These men want (1) tax reform (2) land reform (3) contracts from specific firms or agencies, before they will feel easy about appropriating funds. On the whole, they have remained singularly unmoved by Administration statements that meaningful political legislation often depends on economic stability, that one cannot commit funds absolutely before one has them, and that it is silly to connect every political event in Latin...
...Carriage Trade. Arriving in the U.S. from his native Germany in 1856, Frederick August Otto Schwarz went to work for a Baltimore stationery importer. German exporters at that time sometimes packed toys in with their stationery in the hope of expanding their export lines. Schwarz put the toys in the window, and soon they were outselling stationery. By 1862 Schwarz had switched to selling nothing but toys; in 1870 he moved his business to Manhattan, where he quickly gained a reputation for "exclusive" imports that won him the favor of the carriage trade...
...first, the Von Kessens seem to Augustine merely odd. They shoot foxes, and twin children are punished by being dog-chained to the castle wall. Uncle Otto broods about the defeat of the German army and the insolence of the Red militiamen roaming the Ruhr. His young cousin Franz speculates on the nature of politics and violence with a mystical intensity that shocks the rationalistic Englishman. There is a pet fox in the attic. Also in the attic, though Augustine does not know it, is a young, half-crazed fanatic sought by the police as a member of a proto...
Somehow, the opera got started on time. But in Act II, just when Baritone Otto Edelmann seemed to be booming along comfortably in the role of Wotan, his voice began to fail. Edelmann withdrew at the end of Act II. He was replaced by Baritone Randolph Symonette, who lasted on stage for only four minutes. "It seemed to me like four hours," said shaken Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, later...
...then the three other skies"), and following her own rules, she always worked from the top down, filling in the fields and farmhouses, the toylike trees and stubby little figures simply by instinct. Before long, she was big business, with her affairs being handled in Manhattan by Otto Kallir. director of the St. Etienne Gallery. Her canvases fetched as much as $10,000 and wherever she went, people asked her for her "monogram...