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President Paul von Hindenburg is strict on one point: he will serve as godfather to no German child except a ninth son. Last week in the Prussian town of Langenberg one Frau Colsman, already mother of six sons, was successfully delivered of boy triplets. Vice Chancellor von Papen stepped up as godfather of one. Chancellor Adolf Hitler as godfather of another. For the third and ninth President von Hindenburg proudly allowed himself to be registered as godfather...
...Ministers meet, talk, elect officers, pass resolutions, shake hands, go home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they believe not only in baptism by immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats, the women in poke bonnets and long capes...
...during the year. Not for a while did he realize his mistake. Then he discovered that having only one suit to his name, he would be unable to sent it out. He didn't dare try out his pink pajamas on Professor Merriman, having heard of the latter's strict ideas about comportment...
...making these changes in the Master's degree the English department is following the lead of eight other departments who have followed the recommendation of George H. Chase '96 dean of the Graduate School, to make the requirements more strict and so raising its prestige...
There is nothing that could, in any strict accuracy, be called an "Armament Ring" in Europe today. There is no perfectly homologous group of single-purposed individuals that sits down before a polished table in a sound-proof room and plots new holocausts in Europe. Search through the armament makers as you will, you will find neither a Machiavelli nor a Dr. Fu Manchu. But that's all you won't find...