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Congress members who differed from Nazi eugenic tenets contented themselves with remaining mum observers last week while the German Press quoted Dr. Campbell by the yard. Abroad excited Jewish editors tried to dig up something against him, found nothing more remarkable than that his wife was named Helen Fahnestock. Socialite Dr. Campbell's boldest dicta: "The difference between the Jew and the Aryan is as unsurmountable as that between black and white. . . . Germany has set a pattern which other nations must follow...
Died. "Dusty" Matthews, 86, retired fisherman, "friend of King Edward"; in Eastbourne, England. Seeing George V and Queen Mary strolling last spring, Fisherman Matthews pumped the monarch's hand, said: "I'm pleased to meet you, Captain. I knew your mum and dad" (TIME, April...
...Ambassador Saito found themselves in hot water, the Administration observed piously that it cannot interfere with the freedom of the U. S. Press. In the offices of Vanity Fair it was hoped for some hours that the State Department might send a bit of suggestion or advice, but mum to Vanity Fair were Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt...
...Rumania, since Hohenzollern King Carol's youngest sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
...with President Roosevelt to announce that he did not care to discuss the Virgin Islands any further. No sooner had he departed than Senators Tydings, Harrison and Robinson trooped into the White House for a full hour's heart-to-heart with the President. They too marched out mum, but Senator Tydings hurried over to the Senate caucus room, recessed his investigation...