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Germany has been saved so often by her foreign creditors at the last moment that these International Bankers were the subject of speculation last week. Was there another rescue in them? In London the staid Financial News inferred from the presence in Manhattan last week of fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, that he might be organizing a rescue party. After the Nazi assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss (see p. 17). British editors raised a chorus of demands that Germany be left to her fate...
...upstart," and did not organize under the name of Amateur Press Association of America. Although the NAPA had been formed 19 years before, the group of boys who organized the United Amateur Press Association knew nothing of its existence. At that time the National had become a staid and conservative body, with adults, well past the period of youth, predominating. In strict contrast was the United, whose founder, William H. Greenfield, was only 15 years of age at the time. . . . The UAPAA has a much larger membership than the NAPA, and even with dues half as much, they have come...
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. is the name of the Southern branch which last week met at Montreat, a staid resort in the mountains of North Carolina. The 400 delegates elected as moderator U. S. Circuit Judge Samuel Hale Sibley of Marietta, Ga. Graduated from the University of Georgia where he roomed with Eugene Black (now Governor of the Federal Reserve), Judge Sibley teaches Sunday School, is an able amateur carpenter...
...Wilhelm, proud head of the House of Hohenzollern, called his five sons home last week. Up the curving carriage drive of the staid villa at Doom in Holland most of them came-ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm ("Auwi"). Old Wilhelm talked plainly. He had summoned them because the excitement of his 75th birthday had passed and he was feeling old. When, as and if he died, he wanted certain dignities at his funeral. He was not well. What of the House? What of that long lost country and that long lost crown? "We," he said...
...author, one case excepted, when he alludes to the famous five letter word of Cambronne; but since the word evokes much laughter from the insanely practical Frenchmen, one may strike on the solution of this little mystery without resorting to an encyclopedia by wondering what would shock a staid Anglo Saxon. Hillel Bernstein writes simple prose, gently mocking everything in France by la France, and not forgetting to take a poke at some of our noble customs and institutions such as the "Busters" which vaguely resembles the American Legion, or the Gold Star Legation. Bernstein's satire will surely amuse...