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Last week the eleven judges who normally make a quorum of the court swished to their comfortable leather chairs, looked approvingly at the crisp new blotters, clean pens, gleaming inkwells and clear glasses of water before them, then glanced at the carefully printed memorandum of cases pending. From the register they learned that one of the next cases to which they must bend their minds was the unfortunate plight of Oscar Chinn...
...Administration's brilliant young legalites, appeared James H. Rand Jr. (Remington-Rand), chairman of the Committee for the Nation. Mr. Rand's Committee, which was all in favor of devaluating the dollar, is all against the Exchange bill. Solemnly Mr. Rand read the Committee an extraordinary memorandum which he had received from William Albert Wirt of Gary. Ind. Dr. Wirt, now 60, is superintendent of Gary's school system and one of the most famed schoolmen in the U. S. He is the inventor of the "platoon school," an educational plan by which classes are divided...
...forced to resign. Presumably for spite, Tilton accused Beecher of having made improper proposals to Mrs. Tilton. A third person succeeded in convincing soft-hearted Beecher that he had actually wrecked Tilton's home through not having been on guard against Mrs. Tilton. Trapped into signing a memorandum which sounded like an admission of guilt, Beecher was sued by Tilton for alienation of affection. He was exonerated after a trial which cost him $118,000 (his church raised his salary to $100,000 for that year) and, as he said, took up more newspaper space than all the battles...
...additional armaments. Navy: 595,000,000 francs ($39,151,000). Air: 980,000,000 francs ($64,484,000) which will be spent for "quality rather than quantity" in fighting planes. Explained the Foreign Office: "Germany is rearming." Germany. The League of Nations made public an official memorandum from Germany to France, dated Dec. 18, 1933 in which Germany disclosed her intention to "rearm in moderation." Italy. The Glornale d'ltalia hinted at construction of a 25,000-ton ship to match France's 26,500-ton Dunkerque now in construction. Japan. Minister of the Navy Mineo Osumi announced...
From Congress last week a bill was dispatched to the White House to give Deserter Beryl McHam an honorable discharge and put him on the pension rolls. On the President's desk was a memorandum from Secretary Dern...