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From the United Press at Rapid City: "Local Ladies' Aid Societies deny they are or have been interested in Gary Cooper's shirt tails . . . ask . . . where the story originated so they may take steps to quash...
...only hitch was that the U. S. inquiry had given new courage to the minority members of Argentina's two-year-old munitions inquiry committee. The majority had already moved to quash the findings on the ground that the guilty officers who had been stationed as a munitions purchasing board in Europe had long since been dealt with in military and civil courts. Last week Minority Senator Mario Bravo uprose once again and began making charges, far worse than anything the U. S. Senate committee had aired...
...friends' East Prussian estates from an investigation that would have showed up the Junker squires as tax-evaders and misappropriators of government funds. According to Author "X," Hitler overcame Hindenburg's dislike and distrust of him by suggested plans of campaign against France, by promising to quash the threatened land-scandals investigation. Author "X," who is after all a professional soldier, notes with enthusiasm various schemes for launching the next war- one of them a plan to flank the new French frontier fortresses by striking through Dutch South Limburg; another, a bacteriological offensive, to be started before...
...they insist on pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar? As for the questionnaire, Harvard will become more of a laughing stock if the officials quash the whole affair, than if every student were proved to be a debauchee...
...this; that the process of mediation will be stepped up to something more than the snailspace which is causing such widespread disillusion with the entire scheme of dispute-settlement. In strikes, the element of time is absolutely vital to the union involved; and delay in arbitration may quash the walk-out more surely, more disappointingly than an army of thug-scabs...