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...remarks. He had also said: "I mean the Hitler Government . . . irresponsible . . . because it is . . . financially bankrupt." And a statement much more injurious to Germany than Mayor LaGuardia's appeared last week on the front page of the New York Times, in a cable from Berlin Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus calling German finance "a blacker art than ever...
Appointed. Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, 53, of the Bank of England, member of the League of Nations Financial Committee since 1922; to be president of the Bank for International Settlements, succeeding Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip of Holland; in Basle, Switzerland...
Cabling from Berlin last week, the New York Times's Otto D. Tolischus estimated the present secret debt at between $8,000,000,000 and $10,000,000,000. Moreover, said Mr. Tolischus, "That debt is being increased through so many varied channels that the [German] Government itself is losing track of them, and is able to give only estimates, which make German finance a blacker art than ever...
Such a dilemma confronted Rev. J. Fred Johnson of Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. last fortnight when a deacon informed him that Mary Katherine Prince and Frank Otto Cotton Jr. had been married-properly, by a Georgia clergyman-for two years. They had kept it secret from all but a handful of friends and Preacher Johnson had to break the news to the bride's mother. Thinking of the 500 engraved invitations, the church decorations, the reception at her home, Mother Prince fainted. When she revived, she discussed the matter with Preacher Johnson until near dawn...
...Angeles Orchestra began to have trouble. William Andrews Clark Jr., who had supported the orchestra for 14 years, announced he could do so only one more season (TIME. Oct. 30, 1933). The directors thought a change of conductors might help ticket sales and engaged German Otto Klemperer. Artur Rodzinski went to Cleveland to become the second conductor that city's orchestra ever had.* Rodzinski showed himself conscientious as well as brilliant. Besides building up the audience for his regular symphony series, Rodzinski added opera to his schedule and made his Wagnerian performances famous. People came from 40 cities...