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...Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives lustily cheered Herren Laval & Briand. Statesmen Laval, Brüning, Briand and Curtius formally organized their "Franco-German Economic Committee" (TIME, Sept. 28), a bit of window-dressing ostensibly destined to mitigate tariff barriers, aid in disposing of the products of both countries. MM. Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning visit to Old Paul von Hindenburg and, before returning to Paris, laid a wreath...
...Banker Harold Murdock, is pleasant, humorless, sometimes a bit too easy to convince. His campus nickname: "Cotton-Top." It is told how a student of his named Sherwood, on the day of an examination, discovered that a lady of the same name (but no relation) had jumped from a window in Manhattan. Student Sherwood clipped the notice, bought a black necktie, went sadly to Professor Murdock. Sympathetic Professor Murdock excused him from the examination...
...printed lists which advertise the names of former inmates of the old digs. Ah, here was a cousin of his father's, an old rogue's hangout. And the Vagabond wondered if the word hangout originated as a term for the age-old practice of hanging out one's window to watch parades, fights, riots, lovers, Yard cops, and other civil commotions. He was disturbed to discover that the lists of inmates are no longer kept, in fact addition of names ceased in 1912. Where is the respect for the ancestors, the elders, and why has the worthy practice been...
...with a drooping mustache, a little round head and a little round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight Soviet propaganda, explain...
...Streets in Chicago. The central hall is entered by two wide stairways leading from the street floor, the walls flanked by mammoth columns topped by murals. The coupon department, U-shaped, gives access to the bank's customers on three sides. In the centre of the U is window No. 77, and behind this window customers could be sure to find Walter Wolf, manager of the department since 1927, trusted employe of the bank for 26 years. Last week Manager Wolf's lean, rather pensive face was missing from window grille No. 77. And some...