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...Hitler-Franco treaty appeared to put the Franco imprimatur upon the works of Alfred Rosenberg, Germany's pagan, anti-Christian ideologist, and upon the Völkischer Beobachter, which has sounded the Nazi tocsin against Catholicism "until the point of total annihilation." If enforced, the treaty would suppress in Spain the Vatican's Osservatore Romano, which has called Hitler "anti-Christ," the Pope's encyclical With Burning Sorrow, which denounced Nazi racialist principles. In short, the terms of the treaty were directly at variance with a Franco pledge, cited last week by Jesuit America, that...
...distress Mr. Martin telephoned C. I. O. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray, the overseers installed by John Lewis to suppress factionalism in U. A. W. They went to Detroit, last week got the board to call a special convention for March 20 in Cleveland. Object: to let the rank & file end the row by throwing out one faction or the other...
Like Lawyers Holmes, Cardozo and Brandeis, Lawyer Frankfurter is a firm believer in judicial self-limitation. The most relevant qualifications for a Supreme Court appointee, he once wrote, "are his breadth of vision, his imagination, his capacity for disinterested judgment, his power to discover and suppress his prejudices...
...medieval architecture, a novelist who wrote under a pseudonym and accused his friends of writing his books, a leading historian who announced flatly that histories were all lies, an amateur geologist, economist, photographer and naturalist, and an author whose two masterpieces were published despite his strenuous efforts to suppress them...
...agents delved into a study of patents. Two pronouncements this year by President Roosevelt, plus recommendations by Solicitor General Jackson and ex-Assistant Secretary of State Berle, indicate that the 100-year-old patent laws are due for an overhauling-if evidence confirms such suspicions as that big corporations suppress patents to block new products...