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...fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided...
Strangely enough, no correspondent in Germany reported that he saw anything extraordinary happening Feb. 10 or Feb. 15. From other places, however, came reports that backed up the newsmen's dire forebodings and gave substance to predictions of a coming "Mediterranean Munich" crisis...
Many Britons have of late forgiven Saint Gandhi his past sins as leader of the anti-British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...
What else Congress might do to or for business was equally conjectural. First on the House list was the Patman chain-store tax bill, designed to put interstate chains out of business. Other dire legislation may come from the monopoly hearings to be resumed next week. On the plus side, business anticipates juicy returns from the national defense program. And the railroads, pleading on bonded knees for legislative aid, seem fairly sure...
...with most plans of this type there are no funds available for enactment. Perhaps some intelligent alumnus, seeing the dire need for a new infirmary, will donate a successor to Stillman. Otherwise Dr. Bock together with the officers of the University will have to devise some plan for canvassing the alumni and friends of the University. Harvard needs a new, bigger, and more complete infirmary, and she needs...