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...Making a blanket arrest on the charge of trafficking in women and children, the Chilean police helped to dig the motorcade out, hurried it to the frontier town of Los Andes. There the brides & seamstresses confessed that they had been recruited in Santiago and Valparaiso to work in the casitas of Buenos Aires. They gave their ages as between 14 and 25. A few said they had been "lured" from home by promises of a motor ride to see the sights of Buenos Aires...
...Toronto last week one Fred Shipley did a jigsaw puzzle while his apartment burned. Forcibly ejected by firemen. Puzzler Shipley finished his puzzle under a blanket on the sidewalk...
Reorganization, The next manifestation of Albany control over Washington occurred when South Carolina's Senator Byrnes announced that, at Governor Roosevelt's specific request, blanket authority would be given the next President to reorganize and abolish multifarious executive agencies to save money, balance the Budget. Not since War days had it been proposed to give the White House such extraordinary power. How he would use it Mr. Roosevelt would decide after he had mastered the detailed set-up of the Federal Government later this month at Warm Springs. Already his agents were reported scurrying through the executive departments...
Normally this clause, which figures in numberless trade treaties, has been a blanket clause. When states A and B signed a most-favored-nation treaty each pledged that it would grant to the other all trade favors (such as lower tariff rates) which it might grant to any third state. Last week France and Germany agreed that such treatment shall no longer apply to all but hereafter only to specified items of trade. Clearly this opens the way to unlimited trade haggling between states. It was said in Berlin last week that France urged and won the new interpretation...
...dead by sitting shivah-in stocking feet, on rough boxes instead of chairs-during the first seven days. For eleven months after the death there is daily Kaddish, a prayer in the synagog, usually led by a son or daughter of the deceased. Some rabbis chant a routine, blanket Kaddish at the end of services, for all the congregation's dead. After eleven months the deceased is presumed to be redeemed by these prayers, to pass on from Gehenna (Hell) to Heaven. On the twelvemonth, and on successive anniversaries, prayers are again offered, and Yahrzeit lamps or candles burned...