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...Reichstag Building were gutted by a mysterious fire last winter (TIME, March 6). Ostensibly to fix the blame the Nazi Government scheduled for this week a great trial before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig of five men charged with arson and high treason. Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being deflated into an anticlimax by one of the strangest trials...
...American Bankers Association convening in Chicago the President sent a message exhorting its members to loosen up on commercial credit to help along the NRA drive. ¶ President Roosevelt got a business letter last week from the son of President Cleveland. As counsel for the Individual Brand Petroleum Association, Richard Folsom ("Dick") Cleveland, famed for the great revolt he led against the Princeton Club system two decades ago wrote to protest NRA's price-fixing for oil which would tend to put out of business his clients, small independent gasoline station owners in 26 states...
...length behind and Equipoise running a confident third. Down the stretch, around the turn, down the back stretch, into the far turn the first three horses ran in the same positions. Then, on the far turn, something unexpected happened. Mr. Khayyam swung wide at the turn. Big Brand, an outsider, came up from fourth place along the rail. Gallant Sir, to pass Mr. Khayyam, had to swing out to the middle of the track, and Equipoise at his shoulder and trying to pass him at the same time, had to swing out even further. For a moment, it looked...
...Standard Oil has dominated the Chinese oil market ever since its engineers devised a lamp that would burn its brand of kerosene to perfection but, if competing brands were used, would send up such a smoking stench that Chinese were terrified...
...Taylor nosed discreetly into Havana harbor. They had dashed over from Key West. From Balboa the destroyers Sturtevant and Overton steamed full speed for Cuba and the U. S. Navy Department announced that eight more destroyers and two cruisers were ready to follow. Of these the largest was the brand new cruiser Indianapolis mounting 8-in. guns, on which President Roosevelt cruised last month...