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...Another Border Incident. George Elser, 36, posing as a master mechanic from Württemberg, walked up to a point 15 yards from the Swiss border, where, when confronted by Nazi guards, he said he was looking for a Swiss friend. He had about his person a perfectly valid passport, but also 15 sketches and maps of munitions depots and factories, as well as statistics of munitions deliveries, parts of gun mechanisms, and a postcard of Bürgerbräu Keller. He said he wanted to send the postcard to his father. He was arrested...
...business was to get his Plan before the people, to be voted on November 7 as an amendment to the State Constitution. To put it on the ballot, he needed 10% of the voters in the State. He got them: 241,288 valid signatures. By the same process he added a second proposed amendment which would relax the present law so that the process of amending the constitution would not be so laborious in the future...
Yesterday Mr. Conant began his speech by asking the question whether a "free and classless society" was a valid ideal or an illusion. Thereupon he set out to prove that the former was true. His argument might be staked out in two claims: first, that the essence of a classless society is a high degree of "social mobility"--or equality of opportunity for each member of a new generation regardless of his inherited social position; and second, that this social mobility can be largely obtained by, education. After hearing him out, most of his listeners must have been unconvinced...
...depend on International Law to protect its neutrality; what is International law has best been described by Charles A. Beard-"a veritable jumble of claims, assertions . . . and hot contentions." These then are the bare facts. In themselves they point in no definite direction, yet they must underlie any valid opinion on the neutrality issue...
...March 28, 1938 the Supreme Court settled matters by ruling the Holding Company Act valid. The first price of compliance with the Act was the resignation of Banker Whitney, two other friendly banker directors. But Niagara Hudson's Floyd Carlisle was re-elected to the United board-as the representative of "a large investing interest." United announced it would register as a holding company...