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There was even talk of returning it to Japan forthwith...
...Court Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut ordered the State Department to give Dr. Nathan "a prompt and appropriate hearing." State filed a petition asking the court to review the whole case. Last fortnight Judge Schweinhaut criticized State for "dillydallying delaying tactics," and ordered that Nathan's passport be delivered "forthwith." State responded by taking the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which stayed Judge Schweinhaut's order but ruled that Dr. Nathan must have a "quasi-judicial hearing" within five days; if State continued to withhold the Nathan passport, it would be compelled to defend its action...
...Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he has lived and taught for most of his life. Eldred Harrington has long proved himself to be more than merely interesting. After graduating from the University of New Mexico in 1924, he forthwith embarked on a career that would have exhausted any other man. With a firm faith in "the perfectibility of human beings," Harrington made up his mind that a teacher's job must extend far beyond the schoolroom. "I will help anyone with anything in my power," said he, ". . . outside my own working hours...
...bill specifies that any teacher at any college or school in the Commonwealth who refuses "for any reason whatsoever. . . to answer questions pertinent to his past or present membership in the Communist Party shall forthwith be discharged...
...believer in the inevitable superiority of college graduates, Treasurer Kennedy forthwith appointed his brother, James A. (for Austin) Kennedy, to the $5,780-a-year post of third deputy treasurer. But the Governor's Council unanimously refused to approve brother Jim, a steel heat treater at the Boston Navy Yard who left school...