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Theatres and churches continued to function, 90% of the citizens were said to have returned to their jobs, the puppet Government urged nonresistance. When Germans offered reichsmarks they got what they wanted to buy-at 1.66 kroner (40?) per reichsmark. Nevertheless, with its King in hiding, the city blacked out, food falling short and young men slipping off to the hills every night to join their Army, Oslo finally became resentful. Nazis shot snipers as usual. At least 100 Osloans were executed, many for refusing to chauffeur Germans to the front...
...committee stems from the lately deceased Committee on Educational Placement, and the change in name does much to explain the change in function. The old committee was interested only in obtaining jobs for Harvard men in other educational institutions throughout the country. The members of the new committee, adopting a much more realistic attitude, have recognized the obvious fact that Harvard's relations with other schools must embrace a host of additional problems formerly ignored. In part conceived by the amazingly fecund report of the Committee of Eight, the Committee on Educational Relations will for the first time offer, through...
...minefields were to perform the triple function of locking out from home what was left of the German Navy, locking in further supply ships, and lightening the blockaders' sea-patrol task. By sowing so wide an area, even if sketchily, they would make arduous work for Nazi minesweepers, already working overtime to clear the Skagerrak and Kattegat. Nevertheless, nine more Nazi troopships made landings inside Fredrikstad before the week's end. A lot of noise at sea Thursday and Friday which observers took for heavy fighting was doubtless German countermining, i.e., firing depth charges to explode mines which...
...other function the Party has served: as a more or less accurate gauge of the country's fevers. In 1912, when the U. S. was beset by restless Labor, debt-ridden farmers and a discontented West, the vote for a Socialist for President shot up. Up it shot again in 1932, with the persistent depression. In periods of complacency (1928, 1936), the Socialists are nowhere. Last week, as the U. S. shivered with war chills, ached with unemployment, the Socialist Party convened to adopt a platform, nominate a President, take the U. S. temperature...
...great number of hypertensive patients, Dr. Goldblatt discovered choked kidneys similar to those he had produced in dogs. Strangely, in many cases kidney function was undisturbed...