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Madrid Catholics celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart last week and Madrid Republicans did not like it. All over the city white banners stamped with the sacred heart hung from windows and balconies. All over the streets gangs of breathless young men in rope-soled shoes tore through the streets cutting up the banners wherever they saw them...
Under orders from Munich and Berlin, Austrian Nazis went to work last week. Attempts were made to assassinate at least ten high Austrian officials. Crowds of Nazi students gathered in front of Vienna University, were chased down the Ringstrasse by mounted police swinging their sabres. A huge bomb tore out the inside of a department store. Lives of dozens of people were saved when a 30-lb. bomb failed to explode in a cafe in Vienna's Jewish quarter, the Leopoldstadt. Not so lucky was Frau Futterweit. Standing in the doorway of her little jewelry shop, an old silk...
...gentleman-heir in his grandfather's establishment. Arrived at years of discretion and having survived his first passionate love-affair. Anthony went to Cuba to collect a long-standing debt to the firm. Havana suited him. and he fell in love again, but business once more tore him away, this time to Africa, where he spent long years as master of the slave-trading station of Gallegos. When he had amassed a tidy sum he sold out, went back to Europe to enjoy his wealth...
...received the message over the wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival. Over and over she read the telegram which Toscanini had sent from Florence. "The lamentable events which have wounded my feelings both...
...Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their old contract calling for a cut in the profits, took instead a new one providing for $15,000 each for their services in an "administrative and advisory" capacity, living expenses including nine rooms each and the right to entertain "a reasonable number of guests...