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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once before this year the Stavisky investigation harked back to the great scandal of 1914 which only the outbreak oi the World War wiped off the world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged...
...Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar...
...being inaccurate, critical, conjectural. Editor True, whose criticism of NRA has been even more lively, made public a letter he had received from General Johnson which said: "Your last Industrial Control Report is full of misinformation and sabotage . . . statements without foundation ... in one case distinctly libelous. ... In view oi this fact you will not be welcomed at any more press conferences...
Columbia University suffered a similar drop in their summer school enrollment with a 26 per cent decline. The University of Wisconsin was off 18 per cent, and the University oI Illinois, 22 per cent. Last year throughout the country there were 102,457 students doing summer work. From the results so far it appears there will be a decrease...
Jules Bledsoe, whom the fates have both blessed and cursed by having first brought him to fame by the means of a single hit, "OI' Man River," is the star attraction of the show. His part in the production, however, is limited and he does much better with selecting "a from hits of the past than with music which the present authors prepared...