Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter's this year's twin is signed, "Dr. Ernest A. Graupner," although I am not even acquainted with the gentleman. Frankly, I am in a dilemma. Should I turn this matter over to Ripley or to the District Attorney...
...also asked for a full apology, compensation, and guarantees against a repetition of such attacks. Since Japan's Emperor Hirohito, to Japanese minds, is a divinity who is not of the Government but above it, the knottiest problem posed for trie Japanese was 1) how to bring the matter to his attention or 2) how to avoid doing so without offending the U. S. By week's end Washington was assured that the Roosevelt note had been brought to Hirohito's attention by Premier Fumimaro Konoye...
...mobilization of a country's industries, factories, economic resources from a peacetime to a war basis is a tremendous task for any nation, even for Germany, highly militarized though she is. To be able to carry this change through in a matter of hours if necessary, Chancellor Hitler last week created a "permanent economic general staff" headed by slim, taciturn, 59-year-old War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
When a person is hanged, the marks on the neck extend upward and Backward toward the point of suspension, because of the weight of the body. If the marks are horizontal, they show that the victim was not hanged but garroted, so that suicide is ruled out, no matter in what circumstances the body is found. In general, deaths by asphyxia are characterized by blueness (cyanosis) of the face, ears, fingernails and lips; the eyes are bloodshot and the inside of the lids are red; and there are tiny hemorrhages under the scalp. If the victim was manually strangled...
...Leoles case was the first involving the flag salute to reach the Supreme Court. Fortnight before, Federal Judge Albert B. Maris in Philadelphia had held a compulsory salute rule unconstitutional. Whether the highest court's ruling in the Leoles case was a final determination of the matter and doomed other pending appeals by Jehovah's Witnesses, the Witnesses' lawyers did not know, but they considered it unfavorable that in its decision the court cited the University of California case, in which it had ruled that students did not have the right to exemption from military training...