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...accepting bribes. The writer signed him self "One Who Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name of "One Who Believes in Honest Government," threatened to subpena Acting Editor Vance Armentrout if the name was not forthcoming. Above the Courier-Journal's letter column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Who Believes in Honest Government? | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...communications are confidential. They give their names to the editor in the belief that confidence will not be betrayed and it will not." After further attempts to browbeat Editor Armentrout into committing the unpardonable sin of journalism, the committee ordered a sergeant-at-arms to take him to the Frankfort jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Who Believes in Honest Government? | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

Died. Anton Witek, 63, Bohemian-born violinist, concertmaster of the Berlin (1894-1904), Boston (1908-1918), Frankfort (since 1918) Symphony Orchestras; suddenly; in Winchester, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Open boycotting and outbursts of physical violence dwindled, but of the 2,000 Jewish lawyers in Berlin. Prussia gave only 35 license to practice. The drive to drive Jews from the professions spread to medicine, education, the arts. The rectors of the Universities of Frankfort and Brunswick were arrested last week. Officials of the Berlin municipal insurance system announced that they would pay the bills of no Jewish physicians rendered after April 1. Because they signed an official protest against persecution of Jewish musicians in Germany, German radio stations were ordered to bar all records or compositions by Arturo Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Co-ordination | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...existence of the Foreign Press Association trembled in the balance, the German Government embargoed Britain's revered and mighty Manchester Guardian. Its crime: printing specific cases of the beating of Jews, Socialists, women, the most detailed of which came from the Guardian's special correspondent in Frankfort. The last case so reported was that of a street peddler sentenced to a year's imprisonment because he was overheard to say that Jews were mistreated. The Guardian wrote last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swastika & the Press | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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