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...gold have been piled aboard transatlantic steamers and trans-Channel planes. Such "flights from the franc" have more than once been at a faster rate than they were last week -but with that obstinacy which is a leading French characteristic, Cabinet after Cabinet in Paris refused to yield and cheat possessors of francs by reducing the value of the money in their hands until and unless Washington and London should join Paris in agreement to make the new monetary basis stable all around. Among economic experts agreement reigned that the franc should be devalued because: 1) devaluation of the currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fallacy or Victory? | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

That certainly has blacklisted N. C. University and undoubtedly will have a bad effect on the lives of the 40 expelled students. The trouble, as 1 see it, lies in the education system of most colleges which practically compels students to cheat. Too much emphasis is placed on exams and not on daily work. I am a graduate of Penn State '28, which is noted for its Penn Stale Honor Code. Still there is cheating. Yet there is no cheating in classes conducted by profs who play fair with the students. I know men who would not cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...bargain is reached and the reporter is allowed to enter the sacred room where the Art of the Covenant and certain tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments are supposed to be kept. Every Ethiopian knows they are there. Ina a little while the reporter returns and: "Say, you old cheat. There is nothing there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/4/1935 | See Source »

...Fantasy of Fools." On financial policy Herr Hitler said with reference to Japan, Great Britain and the U. S.: "We might have eased the situation through devaluation but we did not want to cheat the small people of their savings. We believe the world crisis cannot be solved by devaluation but only through a system of firmly stabilized currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Little Man, Big Doings | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...cheat the chair of their client, last week at Trenton Counsel Fisher & associates sought a new trial from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Appeal at Trenton | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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