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Uruguay had the worst scare, and, like Mexico, went after big fish (see p. 34). A Congressional investigating committee gathered evidence on which it planned to dissolve German organizations and start criminal proceedings against "Fiührer" Julius Dalldorf and other leaders. Before this could be done, German Minister Otto Langmann announced that the Nazi Party and German Labor Front had been voluntarily dissolved. The Government replied by arresting twelve Germans, went ahead with its report, which traced Nazi activities directly to Minister Langmann. Three German gliders, one parachute and a dismantled radio station were found in a Nazi Stutzpunkt...
...president, sickly, old (68) Leo Ritter, who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars of his profits to Catholic, Jewish and Protestant charities, kept a mansion in Brooklyn surrounded by a garden. Last week Usurer Ritter pleaded guilty to ten counts of usury, will be sentenced for them after Pacific Fi nance has repaid $250,000 to its victims. Since Pacific has $900,000 in cash and securities, this it can well...
...John McConnell of New York, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary (chairman of the Council)-and a couple of sure-enough fellow travelers, Methodist Rev. Dr. Harry Frederick Ward and Episcopalian Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford. One William Ball, leader of Cleveland's Young Americanist League, fee-fi-fo-fummed for the G-Men to investigate this "Red Christian Front." An officious "Director of Americanism" of the American Legion announced: "What we want to do is to make sure that the good American churchmen and other citizens attending these meetings will be on guard so that...
...British-born New Jersey architect, Hector 0. Hamilton, and two Soviet architects, B. M. Iofan and I. V. Zholtovsky (TIME, March 1, 1932). Further decisions eliminated Architect Hamilton who dejectedly blamed his British birth, threatened a suit. Last week the accepted plans of Architects Iofan, Goldfreich and Shchuko were fi- nally released and the world had an opportunity to examine the newest Soviet colossus...
...group from Dunster House recently visited the Hung Fi Lo restaurant in Chinatown. Honorable Fi Lo evidently was without the vigilance characteristic of his countrymen, for the group from Dunster House returned with one dozen pairs of chop sticks. Carefully concealed in inside coat pockets, the chop-sticks were smuggled into Dunster's salle a manger...