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Just one hundred years before the American Revolution, Thomas Danforth, treasurer of Harvard College and justice of the peace in Cambridge, issued a warrant against three Harvard students, several town men, a soldier, and some of then female friends "to answer respectively for nightwalking and entertainment of such persons, with other inside meanors committed by them contrary to law" notably drinking...
Thus spoke Adolf Hitler after a U. S. Federal warrant had been issued last week for the arrest of Heinz Spanknoebel, zealous fomenter of Nazi activities in the U. S., under a Wartime act which provides five years in jail or a $5,000 fine, or both, for "acting as a foreign governmental agent without notice to the Secretary of State." Heinz Spanknoebel promptly disappeared. Ships were searched at sea, detectives ferreted. Best opinion seemed to be that Nazi Spanknoebel was hiding somewhere among the beer kegs and singing waiters of Manhattan's Yorkville...
...picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship. Never seen on so conspicuous a spot as Lenin's tomb is the Chief of the Gay-Pay-Oo, dyspeptic Viacheslav Rudolphovich Menzhinsky (below at left). The Gay-Pay-Oo have the right to seize anyone without a warrant, to try and condemn the prisoner without a jury...
...price of rails must be reduced from $40 to $35 a ton. Having pondered, the six U. S. makers of rails (Carnegie Steel, Illinois Steel, Tennessee Coal, subsidiaries of U. S. Steel; Bethlehem Steel; Inland Steel: Colorado Fuel & Iron) last week decided that the apple was tempting enough to warrant swallowing half the serpent. They posted a new price...
...later developed that he was expected to compete in a shoot at Chicago's North Shore Gun Club.) And he was extraordinarily fussy about taking a brown-paper parcel into the cabin with him. The porter decided Mr. Smith's behavior was not ominous enough to warrant reporting. He slammed the cabin door shut and in a moment No. 23 roared away-a big twin-motored Boeing of the latest design-with its two passengers, its crew of two pilots and the usual attractive young stewardess. Three hours later No. 23 slid down to Cleveland on time, took...