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...Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman, a U. S. tenor under contract to the Berlin Staatsoper, to decline his invitation to Salzburg, he angrily...
...receive his commission it was discovered that the President had not signed it. Scribbled on the margin was the note: "Held up because of political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried to become Director of Mines under Herbert Hoover. Boss Farley was determined to let no Republican into the Bureau of Mines or anywhere else if he could help...
...rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam, Nigeria, Dutch East Indies and the Malaya States. When silk rises from its Depression low to its price last week of $1.20 per lb., Japan can and does buy more scrap steel from the U. S. Sugar at 2¢ per lb. for the first time in four years...
...receive the first U. S. President in its territorial history the "Paradise of the Pacific" was prepared to give Franklin Roosevelt a royal welcome. Its citizens were planning to put him up at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in the suite occupied three years ago by Siam's good King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni. There from his lanai (veranda) he could look out at the surfboarders and swimmers of Waikiki Beach. A hundred volunteer guides were eager to show him the huge fortifications on Diamond Head, the great naval base in land-locked Pearl Harbor (which he as Assistant Secretary...
...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...