Trials for Nazi leaders loom as Jackson leads US case
Washington Digest notes that an international military tribunal will try top Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity. Justice Robert H. Jackson will prosecute with British and Soviet counsels, emphasizing a high standard of judicial process while pursuing broad, leadership-level accountability.
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Freight Rate Ruling Affects Small Town Shippers
The Interstate Commerce Commission has roughly cut class rates from the Midwest to the South and West by about 10 percent while raising rates east of the Illinois-Indiana line. The decision, after six years of study, could spur new small businesses and decentralization to the South and West, but exact effects vary by supplier, shipment method, and destination.
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Barbs and boasts on wartime lies and camps
The government sells a New Jersey camp seized from the German American Bund and plans a boys camp. German businessmen seek loan applications to rebuild a city. Field Marshal Mannerheim congratulates Stalin on victory over Germany in 73 words, Stalin replies in 19. BBC claims truth proves more effective than lying. Goebbels might be wrong.
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Practical Pinafore Pattern for Little Girl
Sewing circle needlecraft pattern item outlines two pinafore motifs in one pattern. Pattern 844 transfers 12 motifs from a 34 by 114 inch sheet to 6 by 91 percent inches with directions and stitches. Send your order to the address provided.
Famous Paintings Split and Sold as Separate Pieces
Collier's reports that many great oil paintings were cut in half and sold as two separate pictures to unsuspecting collectors. A London exhibition displayed The Finding of Moses by Tiepolo in its two pieces, revealing the practice. Sculpture also saw similar division, with the Lemnian Athena’s head in Bologna and body in Dresden.
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Household Tips From a Past Era
Practical household hacks cover cooking asparagus in a percolator, stiffening collars with epsom salts, fitting felt into rubber heel tips, crushing pills with spoons, refrigerator container shapes, broom cover fittings, sewing a broom cover, lining glove fingertips with cotton, and sealing jar rims with wax.
Artist Chooses Debt Over Dignity In Comic Tale
A famed illustrator avoids finances causing creditors alarm. The tailor chases payment after two years of delays. The artist retorts with a string of meals at the Astor Colony and Waldorf, claiming his bill travels with him to luncheon and sea shore, a running joke on his neglect of money matters.
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