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Last week Pastor Niemoller began his third year in the Reich's custody. He was reported in good health but morose, convinced he would not be free before the collapse of Naziism. The Government, which has offered him release on condition that he refrain from preaching, gave the screw a turn by threatening to evict Niemoller's wife and seven children from his old rectory. Two thousand members of the Dahlem congregation approved a protest declaring: "This is not . . . Christian. . . . We consider Pastor Niemoller, though he may be imprisoned, as our rightfully chosen minister...
...rearranging first and second choice of Houses between the first and second application. For the Freshman is placed in a difficult position in not knowing how each Housemaster will react if he changes his second choice to first in his later application. It may even be wisest to refrain from naming any House in the second application...
...Passage of a request (not a law) that Methodist ministers refrain from smoking and chewing tobacco...
According to Jack Russell, organiser, a number of University students are already engaged in this "effective weapon," which consists of sitting down with a telephone book and calling names at random. When a person answers be is informed of the strike and asked to refrain from using the cabs...
...this growing disease Congress has long been meditating, and the result of years of rehashing is the Harrison Bill. Called by President Roosevelt one of the most important of his tenure, its purpose is to equalize educational opportunities among the states by grants from a federal fund and still refrain from interference with local policy. To tax one part of the country in order to support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools...