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Determined to drag out the Reichstag Fire Trial until the last Nazi has perjured himself, the Leipzig court has introduced a dozen more reputable Hitlerite witnesses who have duly sworn that Herren Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff were six places at once on the night of the incendiarism. Quite the most ingenious charge to date was made yesterday by a good brownshirt who asserted that Torgler had tried to get him to burn the building "so that suspicion would be placed on the Nazis." The strategical brilliance of this move would have escaped any but a Nazi. CASTOR...
...investigation of the New York Stock Exchange-an investigation conducted by a committee consisting of Professor John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson, Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., and Arthur Dean of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Their purpose: not to drag scandal to public view but to see how the Exchange's merits balance its demerits, to recommend under what form it should be allowed to continue to exist...
...retired within three years) and then promptly invest it in Government bonds yielding anywhere from 3.32% to 1/20 of 1%. Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot of the New York World-Telegram mused: "The change suggests that perhaps some rather high-powered arguments were used to drag the New York banks into line. Perhaps they were told . . . that the Government, if forced to do so, could easily enter the banking business...
...first view of San Francisco was a graphic lesson in the value of a fire department. The town had just been burned out; most of the citizens lived in tents. Most of her time she spent about the San Francisco fire houses learning to polish nozzles, cut washers, braid drag ropes...
Near Bricchetto as his car passed a squad of sweating artillerymen tugging a 105-mm. gun up a hill, out popped Il Duce to take his place with the privates at the drag ropes...