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...Governor Landon of Kansas, if he is a candidate. . . . I'll never commit myself for anyone else till I know whether Landon is a candidate...
...Heads of units must be kind and patient in their dealings with subordinates, but, if these latter commit offenses and are not repentant, punishment should be firm. Subordinates must be respectful toward their superiors, and even when expressing firm convictions must not forget the important rules of discipline. The Army, in brief, must be united from head to foot in a consciousness of its high mission to serve the nation and the Emperor...
...lobbies Nazi jurists seemed confident that, with President Roosevelt and his New Dealers twisting the tail of old-time constitutional Justice, the U. S. delegates in Berlin would be the first to sympathize with rough & ready Nazi methods. They noted, for example, that U. S. citizens who committed no crime when they bought gold have since been made liable to punishment for holding on to their purchases. Taking the rostrum last week, German Minister of Justice Franz Giirtner announced that after Sept. 1 the punishment of "wrong acts" which were not crimes when they were commit ted will...
Therefore Secretary Wallace did what the defunct Farm Board did: He announced he would not sell his 4,500,000 bale holdings until the price went up again, to 13? per lb. On the question of lending on the 1935 crop he was not yet willing to commit himself. Last week he hedged bravely...
...Texas and Gates plunged heavily in a struggling little business known as Texas Co. To sell its oil abroad, Texaco bought up a fleet of tankers. One of the tankers was captained by a blond, husky stripling of 22 named T. Rieber. Captain T. Rieber would not even commit himself as to his birthplace, which was in Sweden, or his first name, which was Torkild. This close-mouthed independence so pleased the rulers of Texaco that Captain Rieber was soon sent ashore. With a mind for nothing but work, he learned oil from the ground to the filling station before...