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charges that Army and Navy intelligence service and Dept of Justice aided Assn in maintaining production on govt contracts denied by War Dept spokesmen; Assn accuses G Swope, and G E Deming of labor union sympathy; all records subpoenaed; Sayre, Abbott and L A Stringham on stand
Roosevelt's statement at press conf regarded as rebuke to Lewis; comment by Lewis
jury completed; list; 8 defendants jailed for duration of trial; defense seeks to set up constitutional issue by exhausting challenges
cold wave
Sloan in statement to press says co is willing to bargain as soon as plants are surrendered; promises to re-employ as many as possible in plants not occupied
1937Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (born 1876)[†]
Orso Mario Corbino was an Italian physicist and politician. He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and he discovered the Corbino effect. He served as Minister for education in 1921–1922 and as Minister for National Economy in 1923–1924. He also served as professor of the University of Messina (1905) and of the University of Rome (1908). He was also the supervisor of the Via Panisperna boys.
1937The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.[†]
The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed against "Trotskyists" and members of the "Right Opposition" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.The "Case of the Trotskyite–Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ; The "Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" ; and The "Case of the Anti-Soviet 'Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites'".