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...court town of Riom, the new French Supreme Court through Special Attorney Gaston Cassagnau asked for two more indictments. Cited were Edouard Daladier, "strong-man" wartime Premier, and General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who believed in the Maginot Line. Wording of the indictments was not divulged, because part of the seven-man court itself examines evidence and brings or dismisses charges, and presumably the evidence against Daladier and Gamelin had not been digested. But it meant that with seven big Frenchmen either under indictment or lock & key, the trial was getting well under...
...been the worst so far. Prodded by the city newspapers (and by ambitions for a third term in 1941) St. Louis' stubborn Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann last December agreed that slow moves for smoke abatement had to be turned into fast moves for smoke elimination, set up a seven-man board to consider new measures...
...post of Class Secretary must, be filled by a resident of Boston or vicinity. The seven-man Class Day Committee supervises all activities on Class Day in June...
Captain Kim Canavarro dropped a close five-game match to Stan Pearson, dethroned Intercollegiate squash king, but the Crimson seven-man team carried too much strength in the lower positions and copped a 4 to 3 victory from Princeton in the Hemenway courts Saturday...
Switzerland is ruled by a seven-man Federal Council elected by its Parliament. Each year the Council gives one of its members the title of President. Chosen last week from the newly elected Council: onetime (1934) President Marcel Pilet-Golaz,* 49, lawyer, neutral (educated in both France and Germany), lieutenant colonel in the nation's civilian Army (whose 500,000 men have been under arms since September...