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...Moscow, Izvestia devoted three Page One columns to a discussion of the treaty. It indicated that an agreement had been reached between the two nations whereby each would maintain a strict neutrality "in the event the other is attacked without provocation by a third power or group of powers." A similar pact exists between Germany and Russia...
...Gambling, in a strict sense of the word -I do not mean the laying of small wagers for fun-is a vice which can wreck men and families just as quickly as other vices. Communities and families where the gambling fever obtains cannot long continue sound either economically or socially...
Plans for Bennington College, an institution to release promising young women from strict curricular bondage, began to be realities last week. In the ancient, green-hilled Vermont town of Bennington, famed for its historic white homesteads and its annual production of 500,000 Kiddie-Kars, gathered many a distinguished well-wisher for the ground-breaking exercises. Robert Devore Leigh, 40, onetime Williams professor, president of the new college, led the ceremony. The audience eyed him appraisingly, a pink-cheeked, bespectacled scholar who is expected to infuse Bennington with the same stirring liberalism he had shown at Williams. Dorothy Canfield Fisher...
Tammany on the Telephone-The legislative committee cited Dr. Doyle for contempt. A Supreme Court Justice sentenced him to 30 days in jail. Then Dr. Doyle's smart young lawyers began appealing to higher and higher courts, occasionally winking at the rules of strict legal ethics. Counsel Seabury thought he had a gentleman's agreement with Doyle's counsel whereby he would be given notice when the case was to be taken before an Appellate judge. He was mistaken. Late one evening, one of Doyle's lawyers raced to Lake Placid, got an uncontested stay from Justice Henry L. Sherman...
...they were questioned four hours at the airport; four hours again the next day and nearly eight hours the day after that when their developed films showed views of fortifications. Both Herndon & Pangborn protested they had not recognized a fort if they saw one, but Japanese espionage laws are strict: They could be fined $1,500 or put in prison for three years. Civil officials, believing in the flyers' innocence of intent, were all for. leniency. But the army openly favored a prison term. It appeared that the investigation might go on for many more days...