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...Secret Service have been baffled by a form of crime they could not solve: minor robberies in the Roosevelt household. Missing were money, dresses, coats, lamps, pieces of linoleum. Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, Clerks Grace Tully and Paula Larabee, Chief Messenger Joseph Sheehan were victims. As a final result, $200 disappeared from the White House police fund...
...Significance. Depending on their sympathies, observers regarded the poll-priming furor as either: 1) the beginning of a hard-boiled Party purge which by 1940 might result in a serious Democratic schism; or 2) the pained but pointless howling of anti-New Dealers who, if driven into the wilderness, would have no other place...
...Sudetens, with municipal rule, education, public services and police left to the community majority; foreign affairs and national affairs affecting the whole country to be administered from Prague. 2) A plebiscite under foreign control to determine whether the Sudetens want to be citizens of Germany or Czechoslovakia. "The result," assured Henlein, "would be a 98% majority for Germany." 3) "The third solution," continued the Führer, "would be simpler still." It is that if Czech repression of the Sudetens continues, their resentment may one day force the German Government by direct action to bring them within the frontiers...
...Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research, Dr. Barclay has recently explored the uttermost crannies of the living lungs. Notable result was a complete description of "the normal escalator action" by which the lungs constantly expel dry dust that is inhaled. Dr. Barclay made his observations on the lungs of anesthetized cats, which breathe at 30 respirations a minute (almost as slowly...
Thurman Arnold has spent most of the last 16 years lecturing, wittily, on law. Last October, when he was a Yale Law School professor, Yale University Press published a book of his called The Folklore of Capitalism. In it he said of the anti-trust laws that their actual result "was to promote the growth of industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels. . . . Men like Senator Borah founded political careers on the continuance of such crusades, which were entirely futile but enormously picturesque, and which paid big dividends in terms of personal prestige...