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GEORGE A. ERNST...
Last week, when the Society met to install its new officers, wigs were on the green. Leader of the opposition was Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, a newly elected member of the Comitia. Since the new position of executive secretary, said Dr. Boas, had not been approved by the membership, according to Society rules, it was illegal. If one penny was paid Dr. Hamilton, he said, Manhattan Lawyers Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine would raise legal hell...
...CENSOR MARCHES ON-Morris L Ernst & Alexander Lindey-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A sharp, clattering, rather witty account, in the best liberal-lawyer-to-laymen manner, of what U. S. sex censorship amounts to in its several fields. Nothing startlingly new is said on this sore old subject. The authors bring all the more famous court fights, raids, enlightened opinions and funny stories between two covers. The book also outlines just what can, to date, be legally got away with; and gives in full the anthropologically fascinating, immortally funny Production Code for the movies. The volume may be useful...
...over two centuries ago, King Gustaf V opened the Swedish Riksdag by declaring: "Finland's involvement in armed conflict touches the Swedish people. . . . Sweden feels an obligation to give Finland's brave people every material humanitarian help which is possible while heeding its own position." Finance Minister Ernst Johannes Wigforss indicated what form that heeding would take. He presented the first 2,000,000,000-kroner (about $476,600,000) budget in Sweden's history. Of this sum more than half was to be for defense...
Though help was going to Finland, it was not going fast enough. Two detachments of Swedish "volunteers" arrived under 71 -year-old General Ernst Linder, but Italy was reported to be delaying effective help because of German objections. Desperately the Helsinki Government cabled its military attaché in Washington, Colonel Per Zilliacus, to buy planes and send them quickly. Colonel Zilliacus was having a hard time, for most U. S. plants were clogged with French and British orders. And the Finns' greatest need, artillery and small arms, was even harder to buy in a warring world. A good example...