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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though the Treaty goes provisionally into effect on this date, it is not final until ratified by the French Chamber of Deputies and Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Champagne & Chassis | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...special chamber of horrors for overburdened Freshmen, as seen by the Committee report, lies in the realm of the sciences, with Chemistry being the rank offender. Under present conditions the University Catalogue of Courses is valuable for just one thing: look in it to see what the length of your laboratory periods WONT be! University Hall is guilty of at least carelessness, if indeed nothing worse, when the Catalogue indicates three-hour laboratory periods for Chemistry A B, while experience invariably shows a period of from four and a-half to five hours to be the normal requirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YARD STATES ITS CASE | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

France's other bogey of the week was the new Chamber of Deputies which sits next month. The farthest Left France has ever gone, with 72 Communists and a Socialist-dominated majority, this was actually a very pale pink. Last week the French Press blazed with the boasts, threats and possible and probable intentions of just one man: Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Aside from France's money troubles (see p. 71), this rich old Jew last week made news at every breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bodards & Bogeys | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...TIME, May 11). Last week Egyptian politicians worked fast to take over the Government. As 16-year-old King Farouk I arrived from England to move into his new job, Egypt's overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party swept snap elections, as speechless as they were brief, for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Reason for haste was that King Farouk is two years short of his dynastic majority. The Constitution of 1923 provided that the envelope containing King Fuad's nominations for the Council of Regents had to be opened before a full Parliament within ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Wafd Up | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...past year. These sums did not represent withdrawals of foreign balances in French banks. That type of skittish liquid capital has long since sought other havens, notably London and Manhattan. French capitalists themselves were converting their wealth into gold, sending it out of the land before the new Chamber of Deputies with its heavy Leftist majority assembles next month (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Francs & Frenchmen | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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