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Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
...which swept Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week after the first-act curtain of Die Walküre. The singer was Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a tall, stately German making her Metropolitan debut with a name already important in Europe and Chicago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930 et seq.). Last week she was nervous. Her husband. Herr Otto Krause who left his insurance business in Vienna to hear the performance, knew it. The battered old doll which she kisses for luck each time she goes on stage trembled in her hands. But the audience saw no signs of uncertainty...
Regarding your new heading of "Rolphing" adopted at the behest of a horrified old gentleman from the effete East (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.) it strikes me that this is a departure from TIME's policy of strict neutrality on controversial questions...
...also on the Roosevelt Recovery program. Hitler's rise to power. Other "biggest'' stories, chosen by one or more: California earthquake (TIME, March 20; April 3), San Jose lynchings (TIME, Dec. 4), death of President Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 16), the Cuban revolution (TIME, Aug. 21, et seq.), Wiley Post's world flight (TIME, July 31), Lindbergh's four-continent flight (TIME, July 31, et seq.), defeat of Tammany (TIME...
...good for el Aleman ("The German") who checked Paraguay's steady advance through the pest-ridden Chaco swamps. With more men, more money, better guns. his troops beat off Paraguayan attacks on Bolivia's Verdun in the Chaco. muddy, ramshackle Fort Saavedra (TIME, Dec. 12, et seq...