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...right direction. Last week he gave a White House luncheon to the members of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council. That body of tycoons, now depleted by the resignation of numerous members disgusted with the way the President had ignored their advice for three years, also enjoyed a three-hour table discussion during which they basked in the equinoctial warmth of the Roosevelt smile...
...annual State of the Union address to the Central Executive Committee Congress by Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, an earnest and statistical-minded statesman who seldom makes less than a three-hour speech, began last week with Joseph Stalin in the back row. Three and a half hours later the Dictator was in the front row, the better to hear the Premier who had grown somewhat hoarse...
...General Kenji Doihara, had everything set for five Chinese provinces to secede as a unit from the Nanking Government and set themselves up as "autonomous" under the muzzles of Japanese guns. Abruptly this scheme was spoiled by the Japanese Ambassador to China, grinning Mr. Akira Ariyoshi, who had a three-hour conversation with brisk little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after which the Chinese satraps of the five provinces figuratively thumbed their noses at General Doihara. When, with boiling anger, the General sputtered in Peiping at a local Chinese commander, hurling threats which would ordinarily have made him grovel, Chinese General...
...routine reverence, by theatrical archeologists with tedious authenticity, by smart alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here...
...launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted by a motorcade of Egyptian troops, with a machine-gun car leading on the three-hour run to Cairo where he put up at the swank Continental Hotel. Announcing he would soon board an Imperial Airways liner for London, regal Rickett gloated...