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...desks of the network executives lay the neat briefs their lawyers had prepared for submission against FCC next week in a New York Federal court. They asked the court to annul the regulations issued last year by FCC and later suspended (TIME, May 12, Oct. 20). Gist of the networks' argument: "1) we are not monopolies; 2) but even if we were, FCC would not be entitled under law to determine the fact or to regulate against it." Last week's anti-trust suits looked at first like the Government's answer...
...group's aims last week: "We think it dangerous to allow religious sensitivity to obscure the fact that Nazi tyranny intends to annihilate the Jewish race, to subject the nations of Europe to the dominion of a 'master' race, to extirpate the Christian religion, to annul the liberties and legal standards which are the priceless heritage of ages of Christian and humanistic culture. . . . We believe that the Christian faith can and must make its own contribution to this issue. ... In this instance the immediate task is the defeat of Nazi tyranny...
Although Captain Jim Lightbody's cindermen finished up-track in the annul Heptagonal meet Saturday afternoon, the Crimson captain was easily the meet's individual star. Yale outdistanced her rivals to win with 55 1/2 points...
...insisted upon marrying non-Aryan Nora Gregor whom he had made the star of Vienna's official Burg-Theater, and to achieve this has been pestering the Catholic Church for three years to annul his own aristocratic marriage. Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After...
...mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning, upon finding the State powerless to annul the marriage: "It's nothing short of tragedy...