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...Polish, she ducked down a side street, eluded German frontier guards, slipped into Poland. Clawing at her tar-covered skin, she was placed in a hospital at Churcuv "suffering from nervous breakdown." Aroused, the Swiss President of the Upper Silesian Mixed Commission for Protection of National Minorities, M. Felix Calender, demanded without result last week that the German Government punish the Storm Troopers who tarred Lotte Feingraeber. The tar having been peeled off her and soothing lotions applied, she said with returning composure: "I shall demand 50,000 marks [$20,000] from the German authorities...
...place two men in his sub-cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt last week had to tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions to bolster Attorney General Cummings' shaky legal staff. 2) To the suppressed displeasure of Secretary Ickes, Charles West, Presidential contact-man with Congress, was made Undersecretary of the Interior...
...policy not to give working permits to foreign cabaret artists. Heretofore, we have been making an exception in these two cases." "Before these American girls came over here the Dorchester was losing money hand over fist!" said Manager Clifford Whitley of its "Leroy Printz Hollywood Beauties." Chimed in Manager Felix Ferry of Grosvenor's "Monte Carlo Follies," "If England is going to turn our girls out, I think our Government ought to do something about English chorines now cashing in back home." In Manhattan next day correspondents, if they expected to find President Frank Gillmore of the Actors Equity...
...Argentine General Martinez Pita genially introduced the two grim commanders whose armies battled each other savagely for years until the recent truce (TIME, June 24). Silently big Bolivia's tenacious General Enrique Penaranda, who was nearly defeated, gripped hands with small Paraguay's resourceful General Josè Felix Estigarribia who came so near to winning that it is rumored he will get a life pension of 1,500 gold pesos. After an exchange of champagne toasts all present mellowed...
Handsome, 34-year-old Tom Corcoran, protege of Felix Frankfurter, is more to the President than a brilliant and useful young legalite. He is also a charming, cultured, liberal Harvardman whose ability to sing and accompany himself on accordion and piano has won the White House heart. It was, therefore, a breath-bated moment when beefy, domineering Chairman O'Connor began his investigation last week by barking in response to Tom Corcoran's request for a question...