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...after law-NRA, AAA, hot oil, Guffey Coal-and upheld only one of importance - devaluation and the cancelation of the gold clause - it has not since last October overruled the New Deal on a single major case. Instead, it upheld in the past year: the arms embargo in the Chaco War, the new Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railway Labor Act, the Wagner Labor Law, the Social Security Law. Yet it was not until this winter that the President demanded that it be changed. A valedictory upon this historic Court was pronounced last week by a Washington...
Then Spike Chaco went to work; the stroke went up, up, until it was 40. Harvard was doing the unbelievable as it passed Penn, came up steadily on Navy. Behind by over a length at one point, the Crimson closed up the gap--except for that last quarter length...
Chief upshot of the long-drawn war for the steamy Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
Schenzvit, ostensibly a land agent, was charged with murder. Arrested with him was a crony, Joseph Miller, a Nazi agent employed by the Third Reich to prevent Jews in Palestine from getting proscribed money out of Germany. Schenzvit had made a fat living during the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, by selling arms to both sides. He also shipped girls to South America, was still doing so until his arrest. Schenzvit and Miller met in Palestine, went into the arms-racket together, had a neat arrangement whereby Schenzvit sold guns to the Jews, Miller to the Arabs. The murdered...
...third and greatest negative established at Buenos Aires is that European statesmen are now joined by American statesmen in unanimous failure to discover any definition of what constitutes "aggression." Abortive also were attempts to solve the Chaco boundary dispute between Bolivia & Paraguay. All Christmas Day and right up to the time Secretary of State Hull's steamer sailed for New York, the would-be peacemakers were still haggling. They broke off to bid him goodby...