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...accused of ''placing the Courier-Journal above the State of Kentucky." Said he: "The names of the writers of such communications are confidential. They give their names to the editor in the belief that confidence will not be betrayed and it will not." After further attempts to browbeat Editor Armentrout into committing the unpardonable sin of journalism, the committee ordered a sergeant-at-arms to take him to the Frankfort jail...
...were published from all 27 affidavits, 19 of them assaults. It was revealed that three days after President Roosevelt's inauguration a U. S. citizen, Mrs. Max Schussler, was molested in her Berlin home by Storm Troopers who forced her to stand naked at pistol point while they browbeat her husband into signing some papers...
...Church agrees to keep her priests out of politics, but considering the present violent, extemporaneous character of Nazi justice in German courts they were granted important guarantees. Even in Nazi Germany magistrates will have no power to force from Catholic priests the secrets of the confessional, though they may browbeat Protestant parsons at pleasure. Finally the concordat, first ever signed by the Government of all Germany with the Holy See, supersedes, though it does not abolish the previous concordats existing between the Vatican and the German States of Prussia, Baden and Bavaria...
Secretary Hurley (now raging): I've taken just about all I can stand from this committee. You won't permit the truth to be told. You distort everything I say. Now you can go ahead and browbeat your witnesses but you can't call me a liar and expect me to take...
...though British and French fiscal circles may have been at the U. S. last week, the British and French treasuries were far more vexed at each other. Ever since testy Philip Snowden took office as Chancellor of the British Exchequer (TIME, June 17, 1929) he has been trying to browbeat the French Treasury into paying interest and principal to British holders of France's War loan bonds in gold francs instead of paper...