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...Forum expressed themselves as being "open minded." In the straw vote taken at the end the five still remained open minded concerning the President's bill. After the forum had been dismissed, chairman Holcombe remarked contentedly, "Well, I got through that without expressing my opinion." He declined to commit himself on the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLCOMBE WITHHOLDS VIEWS IN COURT FORUM | 4/15/1937 | See Source »

...nations which sent him troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative is an armistice while the outcome of the war is still in doubt, and the erection of a moderate government to avoid the excesses either side might commit if victorious. However dream-like and impossible this solution may prove to be, it is at least a straw for Europe to clutch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPANISH CASTLE | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

...from London. ... I can re-call when people here received tales of horror. . . . Didn't we learn something then? Are we going to be worked into a similar frenzy?" Congress, however, was not to be denied the fun of counter-baiting the Brown-Shirts. Before the House Rules Commit tee, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, who is perennially excited about alien infiltrations, charged that one Fritz Kuhn, onetime Ford Motor Co. chem ist, had organized a subversive army of 200,000 Nazis in the U. S. Discovered by newshawks in a Detroit office plastered with Nazi swastikas, Chemist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Relations Beclouded | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...scenes in the local theatre, where a German dancer had fallen, broken her wrist. He fixed her up as well as he could, thought no more about it. But on one of his weekly visits to a neighboring town he saw her again. This time she had tried to commit suicide. When she lost her job Dr. David took care of her, finally brought her home as governess for his little boy, who was very sensitive. Leni, for that was her name, was a great success with the little boy, but did not make a hit with Mrs. Newcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Doctor | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...ears splash in the tank as boatload after boatload of prospective Varsity oarsmen work out, smiling Tom Bolles declines to commit himself in any way on who will be in that first boat that starts against Princeton towards the end of April, or, of more importance, of just who he thinks is going to win that race. But one impression is definitely gained in that boathouse: the crew that does wear the Crimson in that and succeeding races will have plenty of spirit, and they will represent the best that one of the country's best coaches can produce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/17/1937 | See Source »

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