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...Herschel Grynszpan murdered a German [TIME, Nov. 21]. What ever became of Herschel? Was he tried, imprisoned, executed or what? I'd like to know...
...Senate, and 2) made it tough for Senators to complain. All these three were just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat...
With over $30,000 collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...
...commutation of sentence or pardon, unless he can be extradited to some other country. He is a Polish citizen and if extradited to that rather anti-Semite country would undoubtedly fare worse than in France. For President Albert Lebrun to pardon the assassin or commute a death sentence on Herschel Grynszpan to life imprisonment would be to provoke openly Adolf Hitler, who would also be provoked by any attempt to prove the assassin insane. Thus far all Grynszpan's statements have been perfectly coherent admissions that he killed voni Rath for perfectly obvious reasons which might inspire...
Meantime, Nazis themselves were worried. Their problem was how to collect the 1,000,000,000-mark fine for the killing in Paris of Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan. Some 9,000,000 marks was got out of rich Berlin Jews, but there was some question that the raising of the other 991,000,000 might cause such widespread liquidations of assets that the delicate German economy would be jeopardized...