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...original "anti-heart balm" bill which Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson introduced in the State Legislature last January (TIME, Feb. 18). Only woman member of the legislature, mother of two and daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, she said: "It looks like I've become the standard bearer of a crusade to make the world safe...
...Eugene Nortz once held $106,300 of U. S. certificates in which the Treasury promised to pay the bearer on demand in good old-value gold coin. Mr. Nortz was compelled by Presidential order to turn his certificates in and take devalued dollars. So he sued the Government in the Court of Claims which put the case up to the Supreme Court...
...Alfred ("Rosie") Rosenberg, director of the Realmleader's personal newsorgan, declared, "The Party is the unchallenged political master of Germany, whereas the Army is its defender and sole bearer of arms"-implying that Storm Troopers may no longer go about with pistols in their belts. "Whatever remains of past differences between the Party and the Army," concluded "Rosie," "has now been swept away by the forceful rush of the Realmleader's speech. Constructive work must and will result from this historic hour in the Prussian State Opera House...
...have agreed on what is really fundamental," he intoned with returning dignity, "let us make peace and get on with our work." In a few minutes the Lords slipped the amended bill through second reading. Then, as the House adjourned, the Lord High Chancellor, preceded by the Purse Bearer, preceded in turn by the Sergeant-at-Arms carrying the Mace, made the most unusual gesture of stopping in his tracks before the Lord Chief Justice. Impulsively Sankey held out his hand to Hewart who gripped it warmly, ended with a hearty shake the House of Lords' most painful scene...
...former standards. Nonsense as such won't quite pass unless its really pretty funny and somehow I did not feel that this was really pretty funny. Perhaps I haven't got that gay, carefree, New Yorker attitude of which Happy Bob has so long been the standard bearer, or perhaps Comforting Thoughts on the Bison don't apply to me, at any rate there were large portions of the book over which I was seen to nod just a touch...