Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great was the suspense in a Manhattan concert hall last week. After each burst of applause an expectant silence fell in the audience. Many thought, particularly after the sweeping finale of the Liszt Preludes, that Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left...
...retreat of Germany's stiff-necked Dr. Hjalmar ("Iron Man") Schacht at The Hague Reparations Conference last week was epic, masterful...
...quiet dinner chez Thomas William Lamont last week appropriately closed the brief U. S. visit of the most famed living native-born South African. No blackamoor is General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts. Indeed he roused the ire of U. S. blackamoors by alluding to their African ancestors and relatives as "the most patient of all animals" (TIME, Jan. 20). But Europeans will not be angry at what Africa's slim* Smuts said of Europe last week, just before he sailed on the Ile de France. Said...
...term of ten years, and is answerable during that time neither to the Reichstag, the Prime Minister nor the President of the Republic. Stiff-necked Dr. Schacht was appointed in 1923. Thus his term will not be up until 1933. Paradoxically the Allied Powers, whom he was challenging last week, themselves insisted on this arrangement in 1924, when the Dawes Plan was adopted. They feared that if German politicians could depose the head of the Reichsbank they might do so, and appoint a man who would wreck the Dawes Plan. Evidently last week Dr. Schacht thought he had the Allies...
Curtius v. Schacht. Chief of the German Delegation at The Hague last week was Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late, great Stresemann, and a comparative tyro at diplomacy. He had asked Dr. Schacht to come on from Berlin as a financial expert, found him suddenly as troublesome as a Golem or a Frankenstein...