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...Niemöller, a Wartime U-boat commander who helped sink record Allied tonnage, was arraigned four weeks ago on charges which included sedition. During the trial, from which press and public were excluded, the State's case apparently so far collapsed that all really grave charges against Pastor Niemöller were dropped. The State was finally reduced to pressing nothing more than a nuisance charge of "misuse of the pulpit" under a law passed in 1871 under Kaiser Wilhelm I for the purpose of smacking, not too severely, sassy preachers...
Stepping in the Nazi Secret Police settled Pastor Niemöller's hash by simply flinging him into a concentration camp where he will remain during Adolf Hitler's pleasure...
...children she knew, skating on a pond near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...
Bessie married a chemist named Michael Berliney, but in professional connections preferred to be known as "Mrs. Pastor." The couple moved to Perth Amboy, N. J., where "Mike" had a laboratory. With skilled, indefatigable hands Mrs. Pastor kept house for her husband, spent her spare time in his workshop, composing synthetic waxes, lotions and soaps. Today she has taken out 18 patents, has sold some of them to cosmetic and soap makers. Not to be outdone, Mike has taken out 174 patents...
...Bessie Pastor did not forget her synthetic ice problem. She tried great numbers of compounds and concoctions, threw thousands of dollars' worth of material into the ashcan...