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...case of General Kurt von Schleicher, onetime Chancellor and Defense Minister, Military Chaplain Schleigel announced: "I will officiate at the funeral whether it is forbidden or not!" Elderly retired brother officers of General von Schleicher mustered up courage to send telegrams indicating disbelief in the Government's charge that their comrade and his wife had been "shot resisting arrest." Some of these telegrams, bold but not too bold, used a word combination possible only in German, expressing sorrow at the "comradeassassination...
...forbidden to give out any information," they ordered. "Here are two urns. They contain the ashes." Fearfully the von Schleicher kin buried the urns in a grave over which they dared not place the smallest cross or mark...
...agreement of barter or swapping of commodities. If in 1903 the contract had been that 30 years later the maker would pay to the holder of each bond 100 piculs of Chinese opium, how would the case stand? Since 1903 the Congress, having the power to do so, has forbidden the importation of opium . . . and made the possession of it, in ordinary hands, a criminal offense. . . . "And so it follows that Public Resolution No. 10 is in my opinion valid, that the gold clause is therefore unenforceable...
...Dear Children," as the Pope refers to Catholic Youth organizations, number 1,100,000 in Germany and last week were still the centre of a tug-of-war between Church and State. Only group not yet absorbed by the Hitlerjugend, they have been badgered in districts throughout Germany, forbidden to wear uniforms, parade or even play games in public. Typical was their treatment last week in Ulm, where the police forbade them to hold a "parents' evening...
...dogmatic double decalog for brokers, bankers and businessmen. The bill finally enacted still bristled with penalties, liabilities and thou-shalt-nots, but many of its cutting edges had been removed. No longer is a banker both a broker and dealer by definition. No longer is a bank forbidden to loan on sound but unlisted local securities. The odd-lot business and arbitrage are not annihilated by loose language. Even the much disputed margin requirements (45% for a starter) may be altered by the Federal Reserve Board. Most important of all the new Federal Securities & Exchange Commission, established to administer both...