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California law provides that each death sentence has automatic appeal to the Supreme Court before final judgement is made and date of execution set. At that time none on condemned row had gone through the Supreme Court. At date of this letter my appeal is still before the Court. In cases where the Supreme Court upholds conviction it usually is a matter of 3 to 4 months before actual execution takes place...
...host of Third Termites busily boring in the frame of U. S. politics was last week added the biggest & best to date, no less a personage than Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley. At Mackinac Island, where he went to exhort Michigan Democrats to elect Rooseveltians to Congress, he was asked about his own Presidential ambitions for 1940. Bluntly Jim Farley replied...
French war games staged last week brought 20,000 men into action and the U. S. staged maneuvers with about an equal number. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler ordered to the swastika colors no less than 1,000,000 men, the most up-to-date, although far from the largest, army in Europe. This was mobilization-not necessarily for war-but definitely mobilization on a scale nearly comparable to the Imperial Russian mobilization of 1914 which Kaiser Wilhelm saw as a casus belli...
...youth through eight years of elementary school and four years of high school. But in the last 20 years junior high schools and junior colleges have burgeoned. Today, the 8-4 plan, still the rule for most youngsters, is considered old-fashioned by many educators. The up-to-date child rides through his public schooling on a 6-3-3-2 or 6-4-4 model. In the 6-4-4 system (notable example: Pasadena Calif.) the pupil spends his childhood in a six-year elementary school, feels his adolescent oats in a four-year junior high, grows to manhood...
...office of San Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi went Actress Gertrude Lawrence (Susan and God), where she received the key to the city. Formalities over, Mayor Rossi told Miss Lawrence his next date was at the Examiner's Hole-in-One Tournament, asked her to go along. Off they drove to Lincoln Park. "I want to play," said she, "but what shall I do? I'm wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy...