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Much in the news last week was the question: Does the U. S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights cover U. S. Communists and their peewee press? A Philadelphia judge said it did. Martin Dies, acting as if it didn't, said the U. S. people should ponder and decide...
...circumstances in which the lines were written are vague," said Miss Haskins primly. 'T didn't hear the King's actual broadcast Christmas Day but I heard the quotation read in a summary of the speech. I thought the words sounded familiar and began to ponder where I had heard them before. Suddenly it dawned on me that they were from my little book...
...peace on earth when there was still peace on earth. He thanked Franklin Roosevelt for his "gratifying Christmas message," and for sending such an outstanding man to be "the first Ambassador of the provisional Embassy at the Vatican." Damning "evil" Russia, praising "worthwhile" Finland, he asked the world to ponder, on the night when the angels sang, that man has too many instruments of death, too few of mercy and justice. He also said that any further plans for peace would be welcomed at the Vatican...
...down to brass tacks," interrupted Juror Owen P. Hollis, retired naval lieutenant. Hollis himself got down to brass tacks last week with the other jurors and retired to ponder the case. Lepke and Schmukler they found guilty-not guilty Little Schlemiel Kardonick, who wept...
...this same spirit, Washington last week was a welter of Pan-American projects, studies, conferences. An Inter-American cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...