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Power to alter this national flag is not vested in the President, even by Article 48 which permits him to invoke many extraordinary powers. Therefore last week Old Paul broke his oath and violated the Constitution when he issued an edict triumphantly read to Germans over the radio at 2 p. m. by Chancellor Adolf Hitler...
While most Germans were staggered by this edict, the Official German Press Censor nonchalantly passed the following comment by Correspondent John Elliott, Chief of the New York Herald Tribune's Berlin Bureau: "The prestige of President von Hindenburg among the Republican portion of the population is completely ruined by today's developments. He no longer commands the confidence of the entire nation as he did a year ago. He was re-elected at that time by the Republican vote in the confident expectation that he would preserve the Constitution. In this belief the German Republicans have been sorely...
...Federal Court to do it. Three Federal judges had ordered the Texas Rail-road Commission to cease & desist from enforcing its proration regulations until the conservation law could be reviewed. Governor Sterling, eying the chaos around him, set about enforcing proration come what might. He maintained that his edict could not be reviewed by Federal judges. "But." said the Supreme Court, "if this extreme position could be deemed to be well taken, it is manifest that the fiat of a State Governor, and not the Constitution of the U. S., would be the supreme law of the land. . . . When there...
...were smuggled into the church service. On top of all this the singers are reported to have indulged in violent swaying of the body, in facial contortions, and in the practice of omitting animal cries when the spirit moved. Things went so for that Pope John 22nd issued an edict in 1322 forbidding all singing in parts and all extemporaneous ornamentation of the music. The written scores were made to conform to the rules, but the singers went on singing what they liked...
Said Citizen Smart, bowing and jingling his medals, "As a soldier I will obey the edict of the court...