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Nazi persecution of religious opposition has long been an outstanding disgrace of Germany (TIME. Dec. 23), but actually the plan which the President revealed was no great secret and it has yet to receive official Nazi sanction. Religious News Service distributed two long stories on a very similar plan in 1938, and the Christian Science Monitor ran the plan in detail five days before Mr. Roosevelt's Navy Day speech, with an introductory paragraph reading...
...Hindenburg. "He called the Cabinet his General Staff, and the Chancellor his Chief of Staff," but "cooperated with Parliament in the manner of an old gentleman who likes order in his household." By virtue of Paragraph 48 of the Weimar Constitution, his chancellor could issue decrees "on the sole sanction of the President's signature." If the Reichstag objected, the President could send it home...
...according to its lyricist) was last week plugged in Los Angeles by Major Alberto E. Merrill, U.S. Army, and four recruiting sergeants. The Army has been plagued by many a song-plugger and press agent, but A Grand Vacation With Pay is the first recruiting song to command official sanction. Its authors are L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jimmy McHugh (Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Ramona...
...something should be done that they have aroused an unusual amount of activity around Harvard, and are planning to continue their work. Their goal, of course, is to stimulate all the interest in this country that they can, and by so doing, bring about action either through the direct sanction of the British government, or by persuading our own government to sell the idea to Britain
...Dean's office, however, refused to sanction the plan, which Rose called "a national laugh," as too risque and not befitting a Harvard social affair. With their feature attraction annulled, the Dance Committee is attempting to engage some celebrity for the evening...