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...tzensee Penitentiary in Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I expect no clemency and I am calm and await death with perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen because his grandfather was. This week...
...hill across the border is less steep, for General Motors Ltd. largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming in the lumber, pulp and mining districts of Ontario that anger the people and Premier Hepburn, who on his record might favor peaceful...
After passing both the House and Senate, an amendment to the Communications Act, permitting the University experimental station at Cruft Laboratory to broadcast, was sent to the White House yesterday to await the signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Dashing away from a public meeting in Boston, where he had pointed out the need for federal control to insure the security of our agricultural and industrial institutions, the ex-Governor of New Hampshire emphasized the opportunities which await college graduates in the field of government...
...months ago in the midst of the campaign he called a conference to see if some sort of power pool could not be worked out between TVA and private power companies. The conference adjourned to await fact-finding efforts. Last week with fact-finding complete the President wrote to the conferees that the conference would not be reconvened. Reason: it would be useless because 19 power companies have obtained a temporary court injunction restraining TVA's efforts to distribute power. Wendell L. Wilkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. said that the President had known at the time...