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...indictment accuses the five men of conspiring to "counsel, aid, and abet" young men to refuse service in the armed forces and to refuse to have in their possession registration certificates and and notices of classification...
Cynics argue that the speculative trend is inevitable until the law of supply and demand is repealed and human nature changes. But responsible men have begun to worry. Both Funston and American Exchange President Ralph Saul have warned their member brokers not to abet ill-advised speculation; in some cases the exchanges have stopped trading in risky stocks temporarily or require 100% margin. Giant Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith recently dusted off an advertisement that reminds investors that Wall Street runs two ways. Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Manuel F. Cohen has his investigators scrutinizing for possible fraud 45 companies whose...
...Lincoln, Neb.. Journal, she got the chance to chauffeur Kennedy, who had flown in to make a speech, back to the airport. Listening to her journalistic dreams (she studied journalism at the University of Nebraska, where she made Phi Beta Kappa), the Senator idly promised to abet them if she ever came to Washington. Marianne promptly went there, and a surprised Kennedy wangled her a post as woman's editor of a suburban daily in the capital's Virginia environs...
...coolheaded, hard-as-nails police chief. "All right, reverends," he said. "I want to know what your purpose is." Answered the Rev. Norman Eddy, of Manhattan's interracial East Harlem Protestant parish: "Our purpose is to offer our prayers to God." "You have come to aid and abet the law violators of this city," the chief shot back. "Go back to your homes. Clear your own cities of sin and violence. Disperse-in the name of decency." Rabbi Richard Israel of Yale University's Hillel Foundation began to read from the Old Testament. Once more the chief asked...
...nonreligious) personality, and how Humanists could help preserve individual freedom in an overorganized world. The socially conscious delegates also thought about goals closer to hand, passed a resolution approving the antihunger work of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization as "a notable example of Humanist action." To abet the work of FAO, Humanists of the world were urged to work for better birth-control campaigns at home, and for the industrialization of underdeveloped nations...