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...Rogers '38, William Bonner '41, John Briggs '38, will play the parts of the gentlemen who are out to suppress vice...
Joseph Lee, Jr., only member of the School Committee opposed to backing Timility, thought it a shame to suppress "anything that might allow people to think and to keep their minds off such froth and foolishness as you find on every newstand." He added that the city officials behind the censorship of printed matter are "conservative and too apt to make a flight from life...
...that Berlin was one of the last great German cities to go Nazi, that Austrian Nazis might conquer Austria from Graz, as Hitler conquered Germany from Munich. If the French would fight a German invasion of Austria, it is by no means certain they would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give Austrian Nazis less aid than he gave Franco. In such a situation it seemed eminently possible that Austrian Nazis might deliberately foment civil...
Besides sending troops to suppress Nazi agitation in Graz and Linz, there were rumors in Vienna that Chancellor Schuschnigg had hidden troops in all parts of the capital to prepare for an uprising. Meantime he was reported to have ordered Nazi Seyss-Inquart to go to Graz and quiet the Nazis or be dismissed for inefficiency as Minister of Interior...
...Virginia D. Virgin has charge of the campaign to suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...