Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, whom President Hoover sent to Cuba as Ambassador (TIME, Dec. 2), last week had his baptism by diplomatic fire...
With neat, precise, pince-nezzed Dwight Whitney Morrow out of Mexico and on his way to the London Five-Power Naval Conference (see p. 23), the New York Herald Tribune, staunchest Administration organ, felt free to report last week that Ambassador Morrow has not been especially popular with the "American Colony" in Mexico City. Reason (no reason was given by the cautious Herald Tribune): the Colony feels that Ambassador Morrow, unlike his predecessor, Ambassador James Rockwell Sheffield, has not fought to the last ditch for the individual rights of U. S. citizens in Mexico, but has promoted general amity between...
...voice exceedingly pleasant. Hungarian Franz Lehar, venerable comic opera composer (The Merry Widow, Gypsy Love, The Count of Luxemburg) saw The Trespasser in Berlin. For two years he had consistently refused to write music for cinema production, but so impressed was he with the Swanson singing that last week he agreed to compose music for Queen Kelly, an unlucky Swanson vehicle- started two years ago, exhausting two directors (Von Stroheim and Goulding) and millions of dollars, still unfinished. Because in childhood an astrologer warned against sea voyages, Composer Lehar, 60, will not travel to California for the recording. No novice...
...famed, familiar Russian plays were last week noteworthily revived in Manhattan...
Just as quotations of U. S. Steel are an index to the state of the stock market, so activity in U. S. Steel and other steel mills are a pressure gauge of general industry. Last week came reports of increases both in unfilled orders and in ingot production. U. S. Steel opened the year with unfilled orders totalling 4,417,193 tons, unfilled orders having increased 291,848 tons during December. Production opened last week at 60% of capacity, increased to 65%. Most active of the large steel companies was Bethlehem, which, operating at 45% of capacity at the time...