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...most merciless of scoffers wrote the lady the most extravagant of love letters (as he also did to Actress Ellen Terry). To her the scoffer even babbled baby talk. For her he wrote Pygmalion. Against her, even when she tacked on her own ending to the play, he was powerless. When Beatrice Stella Campbell died at 75 last week, with her ended Shaw's second famed platonic love affair...
...This map shows unmistakably that the main aim of England and France is the dismemberment of the German Reich. The Western Powers want a powerless Germany, the same as was created through the Westphalian Peace of 1648."* These words were addressed to Berlin's foreign correspondents, one day last week, by Professor Victor Bruns, an authority on international law who served as Germany's counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter...
Last week the Federal grand jury accused B. & L. and Carl Zeiss of Germany of having entered into a secret agreement in violation of the anti-trust laws. Under this agreement, the Government charged, the American company is powerless to sell range finders, gun sights and other fire-control instruments to any foreign nation without consent of the German firm. Although the indictment did not say so, it was plain any foreign nation meant France and Great Britain...
...beheld the dawn of a millennial day. But the cream of the country's lawyers confidently advised employers to pay no heed to NLRB rulings. When the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act, tories and liberals alike were dazed. Labor's Magna Charta would work. Antiunionism was powerless...
...Hull's reciprocal trade agreements (which would get rid of reduced tariffs on wool goods) for the duration of the war; 2) consider upping tariffs to prevent flooding of the U. S. market by foreign producers. Said he: "When the war is over we will be powerless to prevent a flood of foreign fabrics...