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...more substantial rumors seeped through that German troops had infiltrated Libya. Color to the rumor was lent by the fact that German Storm Troop Leader Viktor Lutze had just "toured" the Libyan frontier as a civilian. Also visiting Libya was Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of the Italian General Staff...
...Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred, 72-to-9. Franklin Roosevelt promised to write Judge Roberts a right interesting letter...
...Judge Manton helped to decide in Andrews' favor. > Accepting $50,000 in loans from Harry M. Warner (to whom $40,000 has been repaid) whose motion picture company won a patent case with Judge Manton presiding. > Receiving personally or for business enterprises $232,900 out of $250,000 lent through Lawyer Louis S. Levy to Judge Manton's partner by Lord & Thomas (advertising) whose client (and Levy's) was American Tobacco Co., for whom Judge Manton wrote the winning opinion in a $10,000,000 stockholder suit...
...President Pedro Aguirre, facing the first big job of his month-old Popular Front Government, took charge of the rescue work. Airplanes, many lent by U. S., French and German air lines, were used to ferry food and medical supplies. Two British cruisers, in Chilean waters for a friendship visit, began transporting medical supplies, evacuating refugees and injured. Greatest need was for medical supplies to prevent the spread of tetanus, typhoid, check gangrene. From their Canal Zone base, two U. S. Army bombers roared south loaded with serums. From Chile's neighbor, Argentina, started a fleet of rescue planes...
...this week on the same mission is titian-haired, 40-year-old Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, confidante of the Führer and friend of half of Europe's great. Since the fall of Austria, Princess Stephanie, once the toast of Vienna, has lent her charms to advancing the Nazi cause in circles where it would do the most good...