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School officials promptly suspended 18 of Melvin Bridge's assailants, four of his avengers. A grand jury found Rosen guiltless, let him go. Baltimore's School Board started an investigation of anti-Semitic activities in Baltimore's schools; Jewish David Emrich Weglein, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a 'group of prominent Jewish citizens followed suit...
...work it does a grand job. For in-fighting in riots its shot cartridges are murderous-at 25 yards they hurl birdshot into a circular pattern six feet in diameter...
That the state will be a strictly authoritarian one could not be doubted after the oath which was sprung last week on the members of the Grand Council of the Falange Espanola Tradidonalista, the new Fascist substitute for Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive...
Died. Hsu Shih-chang, 81, onetime President of the Chinese Republic (1918-22); in Tientsin. Holder of many high offices under the last Manchu dynasty (finally Grand Guardian of Emperor Pu Yi), he was said to have been the only Chinese to receive both imperial and republican honors...
Eighteen months ago the trust-busting division of the Department of Justice got its ears pinned back by crusty Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger. When he found out that the Department was quietly discussing a consent decree with big finance companies and automobile manufacturers while a grand jury at Milwaukee was mailing an anti-trust investigation of motormakers' financing relationships, he denounced such shenanigans, summarily discharged the grand jury...