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Busy at Leipzig last week drafting the new German Penal Code called for by Adolf Hitler, Judiciary Commissar Hans Frank said it will "contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...
...polo ponies; 3) an 18-hole golf course; 4) a swimming pool and complete athletic equipment; 5) a technical school; 6) a share in the management; 7) annual free round-trips to England; and 8) 1,000 acres apiece "in case the oil industry should collapse." As an afterthought, the workers appended 33 other things. Last week President Assheton had not made reply...
Latest dispatches from Moscow reported that rifle fodder was being rounded up in Soviet districts along the Polish frontier, remote from either Moscow or Leningrad, the scene of the crime. Twelve were arrested in White Russia, 37 in the Ukraine far to the south. As an afterthought the Government, having let in the clutch of its machine of systematic Terror, described the nondescript persons shot last week as "Terrorists...
...discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital goods. With the construction of homes down to 10% of the pre-Depression average, President Roosevelt decided to rush a housing program into the economic breach. That it would be nice if U. S. citizens had better houses was a pious afterthought of the Administration. The National Housing bill had just one purpose: to sluice money into the building trades and the industries that supply building materials, money from private bank accounts rather than from the public treasury. As with many another recovery measure, the National Housing Act looked invincible on paper...
Having abolished political parties, Through-the-Middle Gueorguieff next abolished all political papers, an. order that instantly took eleven of Sofia's 21 newspapers off the streets. As an afterthought he decreed that in future all editors must be at least 30 years...