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...Baltimore last week Federal Judge William Caldwell Coleman declared the Public Utility Act of 1935 void "in its entirety" (see p. 61). The immediate consequences of that decision affected utilities and the stock market, but its ultimate effect may well concern Franklin Roosevelt...
Deaths attributable to football, a source of deep concern to preachers, coaches, and heads of college athletic associations in 1928 and 1931, have aroused no indignation this year. By last week 19 football deaths had been announced. One Robert Mansfield, playing on an Oakland, Calif, sandlot, died when he ran head first into a telegraph pole. Andrew Crespino of New Orleans died of a heart attack during practice when he leaned over to tie his shoe...
...American Olympic Association met to consider sending a team to Berlin. One faction strongly opposed U. S. participation on the theory that Jews were being unfairly barred from German teams, while another faction argued no less earnestly that how the Nazis made up their teams was no rightful concern of the U. S. This semipolitical issue smoldered along for two years, while the American Olympic Committee was appointed, extracted a pledge that Jews would be allowed to compete for places on the German team and the Committee's chairman, Avery Brundage, went to Germany to investigate. It sputtered into...
...half courses covering the history of science require considerable technical knowledge to be enjoyed; and cannot attract the student whose primary concern is to gain an insight into the scientific method. Such a course necessitates a lecturer whose approach would be virtually that of the layman, and who would realize that his sole purpose would be to stimulate interest in a field that has unfortunately come to be associated too much with pure technique...
Article 42 & Article 43. Adolf Hitler, with his intuitive flair for what is and is not vital, anticipated last week's outbreak of war when he said at the recent Nazi Party Congress, "We will remain neutral with respect to developments which do not concern Germany directly, and our wish is not to become involved in such developments." (TIME, Sept...