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Regarding your new heading of "Rolphing" adopted at the behest of a horrified old gentleman from the effete East (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.) it strikes me that this is a departure from TIME's policy of strict neutrality on controversial questions...
...Napoleon Pelletier of Queens Village have been married 50 years. Mr. & Mrs. John Staudt Jr. have been married seven months. They and 498 other couples renewed their marriage vows at the behest of their pastor, Rev. Bernard J. Reilly. He thought up the idea a year ago to combat unrest and separation, believes it unique...
...Army football game comes with surprising suddenness, especially since it was only yesterday that the plans for the ceremonies were first made public. While no official information was forthcoming as to who vetoed the plans, it is generally believed that the ceremonies were given up at the behest of President Conant. Apparently the plans had not been brought to his attention until yesterday...
...ring kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring's behest Nazi Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller who is Catholic Chancellor Hitler's candidate for eventual election as Reichsbischof or "Bishop of the United German Evangelical Church." Both No. 1 Nazi Hitler and No. 2 Nazi Göring like Chaplain Müller's deftness in de-Semitizing...
Driven in state to the Presidential Palace, General Sandino was asked to stay all night. President Juan Bautista Sacasa used to be a general. When he laid down his arms at the U. S.'s behest, his subordinate, Sandino, refused to do likewise, fought on, always declaring that he would stop fighting if and when the Marines were withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms...