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...Lessing, shot two summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
...Greatest foe of profiteering President Hayashi is quiet, persuasive Mrs. Nobuko Jo, whose profession is to induce Japanese women to endure the perplexities of womanhood. Claiming to have prevented over 2,500 suicides, Mrs. Jo is busy today with the acute problem of Lesbian suicides. Starting among Geisha girls, this perversion has now spread to Japanese schoolgirls...
From Harvard went the weighty disapproval of famed Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, foe of third-degree methods. Wrote he: "An outburst of lawlessness! . . . Evidently New York's Police Com missioner deems himself above the Constitution...
...child, learned football at a Buffalo high school, went to Princeton. There he won his P at guard and a Phi Beta Kappa key in the class of 1923. After a short turn as an instructor in economics, he left Princeton for various Manhattan editorial jobs. No foe of the Stock Exchange, he defended short selling before a bear-hungry Congressional committee two years...
...Merriam forces were straining every resource last week to beg, borrow or steal the voting strength of a Progressive candidate named Raymond LeRoy Haight of Los Angeles. He polled 85,000 votes on the Republican ticket, has a clean record, is a sworn foe of corporate interests. Most of his votes would go to Merriam if he withdrew. But Progressive Haight, who is only 38, seemed quite willing to have Acting Governor Merriam defeated and put aside, on the theory that by 1938 the electorate's disgust with Sinclair will give Haight a real chance of election...