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...Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and present leader of the "brain trust," in an interview with the CRIMSON recently. Among several Harvard economic instructors, it is openly rumored that efforts are being made to induce Tugwell to accept a position on the Harvard faculty in the near future. Similar rumors exist at Washington...
...finished for Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands. Whatever else Van der Lubbe may be he is her subject. Vigorously the Dutch Crown demanded through diplomatic channels commutation of the death sentence. Germany's law making death the penalty for "seditious arson," argued the Crown, did not exist when the Reichstag was set afire. It was decreed by President von Hindenburg on Cnancellor Hitler's advice next day and made retroactive. To the four acquitted prisoners nothing was plainer than that they stood to be lynched. All submitted gratefully to remaining for the present in "protective custody...
...there are many things about Dictator Gomez difficult to align with Nordic ideas of civil virtue. The old General is not only the richest man in Venezuela, but for all practical purposes owns the country. It has been charged that no project, from cattle breeding to oil leases, can exist without payment of a personal tribute to El Benemerito. All attempts to overthrow his government are instantly and brutally suppressed. Venezuela's pride, her highway system, has been built largely by the labor of political prisoners...
...published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar as protector of their church. In return the Tsar gave the monastery $3,500, the abbot and other...
Exercises lasting three hours were devoted to Peace, while savage jungle warfare raged less than 800 miles away in the Gran Chaco (see p. 16). Pointing out that five peace pacts of American application now exist, Argentina's courtly, old-school Foreign Secretary Carlos Saavedra Lamas urged that such of the 18 American nations present as had not signed all five should sign as many as they could as soon as they could. Rising to announce that the U. S. will sign Argentina's Pact, Secretary of State Hull praised "the Golden Rule, by which we mean...