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This was flattery. What followed was intended to impress Hungary's dictator. In a grand review 117 ships of the German Navy sailed past the Führer and the Regent. Admiral Horthy was then permitted to inspect the brand new, Nazi-rebuilt defenses of the island of Helgoland, in the North Sea, once dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, now again a potent naval base...
...painters were remodeling it into studios, workshops and an art gallery. In Salt Lake City, Utah (pop. 140,267), the old Elks Club building near Brigham Young's Theatre had by last week undergone a similar transformation. In Spokane, Wash. (pop. 115,514), a downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district was absolutely unprecedented. It was likewise unprecedented in the 50 other U. S. neighborhoods where, during the past two years, the same thing has happened...
...money. Being an intelligent woman who must make her own living, she can contribute only a guinea (about $5) to each. First guinea goes to rebuild a women's college, is accompanied by a long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with no chapels, lectures or degrees, made of wood instead of stained glass and ivy, teaching music, literature, conversation, cooking. But she knows that...
President Cárdenas crooked his finger at the local head of the Agrarian Commission, ordered him to have the burned houses of the peons rebuilt at once, to supply them with farming tools, guns and ammunition...
...will eventually cost an estimated 25,000,000,000 marks ($625,000,000), that will take 25 years to complete. Determined to make Germany the world's premier tourist attraction and the centre of European culture, Fuhrer Hitler declared that under his reconstruction plan the city was being rebuilt for 300 years to come, that traffic problems would be solved through the year...