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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid, the grandees conducted a kind of dignified sit-down strike against "foreigners of dubious origin." So far, they had signed the patents of only two claimants. Intoned the committee's secretary, the Marqués de Ortasona: "What the king has given, and has been lost, can only be restored by a king." Added another grandee: "We are in no hurry. Perhaps if we slow down enough, the patents will bear the signature of a king and not of a commoner who happens to be chief of state...
...that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed a hazy resolution citing the "fundamental incompatibility" between Christianity and "certain forms of communism...
...local courts to find out the rules of procedure for trying Giuliano under U.S. law, and a Norfolk judge has agreed to act as adviser to all concerned. In preparing the evidence in the Giuliano case the seventh-graders have had to give reports on trial by jury, the origin of English law, habeas corpus, the courts and jury system of Connecticut, and other related subjects. At present, according to Mr. Anderson, the status of the case is as follows...
There is no civil law against polygamy in Israel. The Law of the Prophet permits the Moslem Arab minority the privilege of plural wives. The Law of the Rabbis binds Ashkenazi Jews (mostly of Central European origin) to monogamy but does not affect Sephardic Jews (of Spanish, Portuguese and North African origin) or Yemenite Jews (of Arabian origin...
...German title, Fliege mit Mir in die Heimat (Fly with me to the home-land), and a man named Franz Winkler was listed as its composer. Some thought it came from an old German folk song. Whatever its origin, it had become a D.P. song and had swung through the concentration camps after the war. Last week, Fliege mit Mir, dolled up with new lyrics and a new name, Forever and Ever, was flying near the top of the U.S. hit parade...