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...hurried from Vienna the Nazi Arthur Seyss-Inquart whom Hitler by ultimatum had forced in last week as Chancellor of Austria (see p. 19). This stooge came only to hand over his country to the German Dictator, did so by officially declaring: "From today the Austrian people consider null and void Paragraph 88 of the Treaty of St. Germain which proclaims Austria's independence...
Informed by French rustics that he could not get to Andorra through the mountain roads, buried 20 feet under snow drifts, he snorted: "If I had my null der car which cost $32,000 I'd go through these roads like a tank...
...Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed shop), extras' pay upped 10% with a null minimum, overtime pay for players in the lower brackets, revision of the Call Bureau...
...honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void the Dominion of Canada's legislative measures for unemployment insurance, minimum wages, limitation of working hours and regulation of marketing: the "Canadian New Deal." These measures were originally introduced by Canada's unpopular Old Dealer Richard Bedford Bennett in his vain effort to escape disaster...
...world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said he might land at Chicago, leaped into the dark. null his big motor thundering, he bored up through the heavy overcast to 20,000 ft., pulled on an oxygen mask, set off across...