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...Manhattan, searching a sidewalk ora- tor they had arrested, police found only a pamphlet, entitled What To Do When Under Arrest-One Cent, published by the radical International Labor Defense. What...
...disappearance from the Wyoming in Oslo, Norway of Midshipman Kenneth Barr was discovered when a Norwegian girl came aboard tor a tea dance and said he was expecting her. Soon found was a Norwegian chauffeur who said that Midshipman Barr had dismissed him near Lake Gjersjoeen, ten miles from Oslo, remarking, "I am going to picnic in the woods." All Norwegian radio stations then inquired for Midshipman Barr and helpful Norwegians responded by deluging the U. S. Consulate at Oslo with telegrams, notes and post cards conjecturing where he might be. Ultimately Picnicker Barr was arrested by Swedish frontier guards...
...last year and again this year, Sena tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made...
...Schweitzer studied music under a church organist, was later taught by the great French Organist Charles Marie Widor. Concurrently he studied theology, took degrees at the University of Strasbourg. A Protestant curate at 25, he became organist at 28 to the Societe J. S. Bach of Paris, later played tor the Orfeo Catala in Barcelona. Rapidly becoming an expert on the eschatological elements in Christ's thought, Dr. Schweitzer published in 1906 his epochal work The Quest of the Historical Jesus. But he felt satisfied neither as a man of letters nor as a man of Bach. A statue...
...According to Chief Rogers, Captain Willmott, who died the evening before the disaster, had called Alagna "an agita tor and a vengeful person," had ordered Rogers to dismiss Alagna at the end of the voyage. When U. S. Attorney Martin Conboy who was conducting a Grand Jury investigation of his own, heard this, Radioman Alagna, already held as a mate rial witness, had his bail raised. It took two days to get the story straight: The extent of Alagna's agitation was to strike for better pay once just before sailing time. The extent of his "revenge...