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First came the statement that established his own position?a letter from Otto H. Kahn, in behalf of the Metropolitan Board of Directors, extending his contract until May 31, 1931, in appreciation of "his brilliancy of artistic achievement and resourcefulness of management." So was Signor Gatti-Casazza honored at the close of his 18th season. Many knew that his old contract extended to 1929, saw that its extension was to insure his direction for at least three seasons in the new home, to squelch the rumor that a change of home means a change of organization...
...Almost certainly a majority of the multi-national citizens of what is now Hungary look up to the House of Habsburg as the one authority under which they have ever been peaceably united. France and her allies have stood guard sleeplessly since the War, lest "the heir apparent," Prince Otto of Habsburg (still a child and residing in Spain with his mother, the former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary), be "restored," or the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg seize the throne...
...main dinner, the one at which Mr. Hammond and his wife, beaming in light blue and pearls, sat down with members of their family, was in Manhattan. Secretary of Labor Davis was there. Bishop Freeman and ex-President Hadley of Yale were there. President Humphries of Boston Tech, Otto Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, Colonel Lindsay of the American Legion, Senators Oddie and Pittman were there. Even President Coolidge was there?in spirit?among 10,000 others who had written tributes to Mr. Hammond...
...Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy," edited by Franz Richby, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," by a Committee of the Classical Instructors of Harvard University, "Four Introductory Lectures," "La Methode Comparative en Linguistique Historique," by A. Meillet, "Custom and Right," by Paul Vinogradoff, "Mankind, Nation, and Individual," by Otto Jesperson, "Sanlede Skrifter," by Moltke Moe, "Santal Folk Tales," by P. O. Bodding, "Trends in American Seconary Education," by Leonard V. Koos, "The American Wool Manufacture," by A. H. Cole '13, Assistant Professor of Economics in Harvard University, "Cotton Mather, The Puritan Priest," by Barrett Wendell '02, "Increase Mather...
...glass cases in a restaurant in Berlin were stretched two men, thin, weak, but happy. They, Otto Klein and Max Kramer, were enduring a fast. People around them ate beefsteak; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer sipped Vichy water. Patrons of the restaurant devoured schnitzel, wienerwurst; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer smoked cigarets. For 45 days this painful scene went on, greatly to the advantage of the restaurant. On the 45th day Herr Klein and Herr Kramer were lifted from their cages. They had beaten by a day the world's record fast of 44 days set by Herr Jolly...