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...about to deprive him of "property" (his job) without "due process of law" (calling witnesses to accuse him and be cross-examined). The Governor's constitutional power of removal was also questioned in this suit, as it was in the one brought fortnight ago by a Bronx Democrat to test the "home-rule" amendment of the State Constitution. Both cases, to be argued this week, were expected to envelop the proceedings in a fog of legal technicalities behind which the Mayor hoped to make his escape...
Ended last week the first sennight of Adolf Hitler's open opposition to the Junker Cabinet of Chancellor von Papen. Government officials lost no time in putting this opposition to the test. Acting under Defense Minister von Schleicher's emergency decree against terrorism, five Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia, for so beating a Communist workman named Pietzruch that he died of wounds. That there should be no charge of discrimination, several members of the republican Reichsbanner were imprisoned for from 18 months to four years for brutality in other Silesian riots...
...Most exacting equestrian event in last week's Olympics was the dressage, to test the intelligence, skill and poise of horses 6 riders in 23 movements to be executed in less than 16 min. in a 60 X 20-metre arena. Commandant Francois Lesage of France won first place with his black gelding Taine, as he had at the International Dressage of Geneva last year. A jury disqualified Captain Bertil Sandstrom of Sweden for clucking to his mount (riders must use neither tongue nor whip), awarded second place to Commandant Charles Marion of France...
...spick & span readiness for her maiden voyage from Manhattan this week was the 5. S. Manhattan, biggest (705 ft., 24.000 tons), fastest (22.7 knots) liner ever built in the U. S.* Fortnight ago on its two trial cruises, the Manhattan met every test successfully, was unofficially scored "100% plus." Soot from the two squat, rakish funnels had smudged many a celebrity on the trial run but it was a simple matter for 100 workmen to raise the short stacks 15 feet...
...Gorgulov argued violently and professionally with the alienists. "You should have given me the Wasserman test!" he reproached one defense alienist and approved only the testimony of prosecution alienist Dr. Logre who said...