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...with which the 7 o'clock bell ordinance has been repealed. There is no more ringing of bells early in the morning now than there is "bolsterous music or playing upon drums," (as the parietal regulations put it), at night. Yet last year it took a tinpan obligate to suppress the Sunday morning cartoonists of Lowell House Tower. Even now, we live in continual dread of the Russian Bells, which might start at any minute, announcing the decreasing sobriety of Lowell House tutors. Perhaps President Conant might decree another act of mercy and cut these bells...
Making clear that Prussia will ruthlessly suppress Jews, Communists or even Nazi Storm Troopers who show symptoms of disobedience. Premier Göring declared: "I have determined to intervene with an iron fist! ... It has been shown that the enemies of the State were only pretending to be dead. . . . Whoever in the future lays violent hands on an official of the State, a policeman or a Storm Trooper, must know that he will pay for it in the briefest possible time. ... It is entirely beside the point whether the act is followed by death or merely leads to injury...
...boast that he never asked an editor to print anything or to suppress anything (except once, when he asked that news of a huge donation to an endowment fund be withheld until other donations rolled in). News bulletins go out not under his name, but those of his clients. Sometimes he summons reporters to his office, gives them copies of a bulletin, elaborately invites further questions, rarely tells more than is in the written "handout." Some newshawks curse him for allegedly spoiling a Hearst scoop on Abby Rockefeller's engagement. When the Hearst man asked him to confirm...
...Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...
...truce last week were two. From the south the Canton Government called home the 19th Route Army from its trek north to take over the war against Japan. At the same time Cantonese General Chen Chi-tang accepted a long-standing order from Chiang Kai-shek to suppress bandits in five southeastern provinces. Canton also withdrew its support of ''Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, strutting in Chahar Province. And last week 47 Chinese Generals signed a circular telegram supporting the truce and repudiating General Feng...