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Last week this sorest of Baltic feuds was suddenly reported about to be healed by a Polish-Lithuanian peace pact. Partial confirmation came when Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, instead of scouting the rumors, remarked pointedly that on his latest visit to the League of Nations he had a long chat in Geneva with the Lithuanian Minister to Paris, Dr. Petras Klimas whom he had hitherto avoided like the plague...
...late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who left half of his $550,000 estate as a gift to the U. S. Question was whether the gift should merely be dumped into the General Fund of the Treasury or set aside for some special purpose. Music lovers were suggesting a partial endowment for the National Symphony Orchestra. Justice Holmes preferred burlesque shows to concerts...
Before Arthur ("Dutch Shultz") Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left...
...state legislature. This is proof positive of the legislators' patriotism and 100 per cent Americanism--at last to the American Legion, Elks and similar organizations who have waged the fight for its passage. It would be almost unfair to remind them in the glow of their present partial success that patriotism in days past meant staunch support of American traditions such as freedom of speech and tolerance of minorities...
...bonds in the hands of U. S., .Canadian and British investors. Typical is Gatineau, nearly one-half of whose annual revenue of around $9,000,000 is derived from its contracts with Hydro. In Gatineau's case, however, the Premier proposed to make a partial exemption for practical operating reasons: Hydro might buy Gatineau current at present rates "as it deems advisable...