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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels, Erna seduces Colleret, an adjutant in the French Secret Service and is confirmed in her suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...
...officers' mess. Among Congressmen the growing suspicion that before summer's end they would be called upon to vote more taxes was disquieting. Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Bob Doughton, the Administration's Congressional tax champions, were in a state of high dudgeon. Again save for a zealous minority, few of the President's Congressional followers had any real enthusiasm for the Supreme Court proposal which he had tossed to them to carry out. On that issue a whole division of Democratic Senators were kicking in the traces: Connally of Texas, Clark of Missouri, Bailey...
...petitioner is at liberty whenever occasion may arise, to exercise its undoubted right to sever his relationship for any cause that seems to it proper, save only as a punishment for, or discouragement of, such activities as the Act declares permissible. The business of the AP is not immune from regulation because it is an agency of the press. The publisher of a newspaper has no special immunity from the application of general laws...
...Monks of the Strict Observance. The 62 men of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley-among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain necessary contacts with outsiders, these Cistercians speak no word, communicate their needs to one another in sign language. Like their famed but less ancient brother order, the Trappists, they are vowed to silence...
...punishing, the pay small, the prospects nil. But some of them still schemed how they could get away, fight their way up from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to have done it; Weisendonck and Legge actually had a chance. But nothing could save any of them, not even Skinner's furious courage and skill, when their rusty old boat was caught in the gale that sent them all together on their last dive...