Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still worse was the news emanating the same day from the Senate Judiciary Committee. It voted an adverse report on the bill 10-to-8. It also voted on a compromise proposed by Senator Logan of Kentucky to allow the President to increase the Court temporarily, if Justices over 75 do not retire. Chairman Ashurst and other Administration supporters had taken a strong stand against compromise, but with only one exception (Senator Pittman) they voted for the compromise. Yet it also was defeated, 10-to-8, for only one of the opponents (New Mexico's Hatch) went over...
This clerical thunder whipped Reich bigwigs and the Nazi press into a lather of fury. Through its news agency the Government roared: "The Vatican must decide whether it will allow the improper utterances of one of its servants to go unpunished or call him to order. . . ." Stormed Der Augriff: "Mundelein's challenge was made in a tone hitherto reserved for the wildest street agitator. He insults not only the German Minister [Goebbels] but the head of the State and the entire people including German Catholics...
Executions- In Svobodny, a small Siberian town near the Manchukuan frontier. 44 Russian men and women were lined up before firing squads, shot dead. Not until after eleven days did news reach Moscow and the world. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U. S. S. R. had found all guilty of spying, of plotting railway wrecks in Siberian military areas "on orders of the Japanese Secret Service...
...North Caucasus region, preparations were afoot last week for yet another treason trial of railway chiefs and others, charged with causing 17 train wrecks in January alone. Many of the accused have already confessed, including one Burstein, head of the Mineralnye Vody traffic department. Pravda, official news-organ of the Communist Party, urged the Soviet to make its enemies "pay with gallons of blood for every drop of workers' blood they shed...
Syndicated features are supplied by the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service, whose headquarters is Washington, D. C. For young folk Susan Russell writes "Pen Pals-Intimate Chats with the Catholic Girl." President Fitzpatrick, once a Baltimore Sun sports editor, syndicates his baseball articles under the title "Heads Up!" No matter how it starts, "Heads Up!" always produces a moral homily...