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When Professor Auguste Piccard floated back to earth from the stratosphere, he reported that the sky up there was deep, dark blue in daytime (TIME, June 8, 1931). Last week, floating down from a flight of logic. Astronomer Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory declared in the Astrophysical Journal that the universal sky should not be dark, day or night. It should be light blue. Starlight striking star dust should make the general illumination of cosmic space as blue as the daylight sky seen from the surface of Earth. If Professor Piccard makes his proposed flight from Chicago next July...
...Bohlen last week restored his firm to the dominant political position in German industry that it occupied under the Empire with his wife, the great Bertha. The banks were next. Dr. Georg Solmssen last week resigned as president of the Central Association of German Banks and Bankers; Dr. Otto Christian Fischer succeeded him. Werner Dietz was appointed to membership as Nazi "liaison official." He talked turkey to his fellow members at his first board meeting: "The banking system is inflated and interest must come down. If you do not want the State to interfere, cut the interest rate yourselves." Schlageter...
...arrogant instructions to the other guests to keep the party alive until he returns. Song of the Eagle (Paramount). If you care to pursue the misfortunes of a family of beer brewers during the years 1916 to 1933, you can do so by seeing this picture. One of old Otto Hoffman's sons is killed in the War. With the arrival of Prohibition, his best barrel-roller (Charles Bickford) turns 'legger. Hoffman (Jean Hersholt) patiently awaits the day when brewing will be legal again but by the time it arrives, he has lost most of his money...
...OTTO KAHN PRAISES CAPITALIST SYSTEM...
...French and German, just as the music was written originally. They learned that good choral singing does not have to be exaggeratedly loud or soft, high or low. In 1919, to the distress of many an alumnus, they announced they were through with rah-rah songs. Financed by Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and Harvard alumni they took a European tour. Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky was so impressed that he invited them, with the Radcliffe Choral Society from across the Yard, to give choral works with the Boston Symphony...