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...permitted to function inside French territory. The rumors flew thick & fast that France and Britain were about to do something to prevent further bloodshed in the war. From London came a report that the British had been asked by the Loyalists to act as intermediaries. From Perpignan came a dispatch saying that President Azaña opposed further resistance. He was said to have split with Dr. Negrin and to have gone to Paris. The Catalonian Government was said to have declared the war at an end as far as it was concerned, which...
Dilliard was born in Illinois in 1905 and in the past few years he has served on the editorial staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has devoted himself mainly to the study and analysis of problems dealing with Supreme Court decisions and controversies. He has also written about administrative law and labor...
...Figueras, 17 miles south of the French border and 40 miles north of the advancing Rebel lines at week's end. He announced a fight to the finish and declared that fresh troops with new arms would establish a line on the Ter River. In an odd dispatch. New York Timesman H. L. Matthews stated that the French border had "opened just a little" so that war material could get to the Loyalists. There was no official indication of this in Paris. Nor was there any indication in the exhausted Loyalist Army that the orders of the civil authorities...
...impatient members of a senate judiciary committee, three individuals opposed yesterday the nomination of Professor Felix Frankfurter to the supreme court to no seeming avail. No organized opposition was evident and an early confirmation of the appointment was indicated in the day's hearings according to a United Press dispatch...
Since September the first eight Nieman Fellows have been following their collective nose for knowledge into Harvard's classrooms, laboratories, libraries, professorial dens. (A ninth, Irving Billiard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will start next term.) As a combination managing editor and wet nurse they have able Poet-Journalist Archibald MacLeish, whose official title is "Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism...