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...defection of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria has really broken up an alignment which was the main bulwark of her "security." With the more or less open and certainly rapid rearming of Germany, and the upstart manoevering of Mussolini--which produced the Balkan pact--France finds herself in an unobtrusive backseat. The League has gone, the Treaty with it, Germany is on the road back, (with an obvious goal,) and internally France is weakened by uncertainly--the stage could not better be set for a fascist coup d'etat, the unification of the State, and the subsequent elimination of the "internationalist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...Paris knows Jimmy Walker, who rode grinning in the middle (see cut). The third backseat rider, Chairman Albert Henry Wiggin of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, has nobody knows how many foreign commitments. Appropriately Mayor Jimmy made Banker Al the City's official greeter. Striking the note of a hen on anxious eggs at the City Hall, Mr. Wiggin greeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Canvass | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Some questions the Supreme Court will be asked to settle: Is a "backseat driver" guilty of contributory negligence if he fails to warn of a prospective accident? Is a sunstroke a disease orj an accident? Is a check legal money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Sitting No. 142 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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