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...crisp, determined, confident fashion, Premier Edouard Daladier took his new Cabinet of moderate Left statesmen before Parliament last week, asked a free hand to rule by decree until July 31. This was asking much more than ousted Socialist Premier Léon Blum was refused fortnight ago when his Popular Front Cabinet cracked up. The new Premier was banking last week on a growing realization that the majority of public opinion in France has shifted from the Left part way to the Centre. The disgruntled Left, conscious of their weakened position but eager that it should receive no advertisement last...
Pins & Needles. The Ladies' Garment Workers' crisp satirical revue-a kind of I'd Rather Be Left (TIME...
...mothers last week babbled these pleasant tales of motherhood to Benito Mussolini in his big office. They were representative of the 94 big winners in his More Babies Contest who have had 727 children (7.7 apiece) in the last eleven years. Each received from the Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
...without warrant or due process of law, it was a first step toward their education in democracy when Stalin's constitution labeled these things unconstitutional. So likewise it was education last week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious Disciple Stalin, describing the difficulties of keeping his Communist troops together, wrote to the Master Lenin: "I drive and scold everyone who needs...
...shows the bottom as well as the top, emphasizing that the vast army of skilled film technicians, the grips and pincers, the cutters and carpenters, are more pertinent to picture production than the overpublicized screwballs behind the big desks. Much of Stand-in's authentic atmosphere and crisp character delineation is due to the directing of Tay Garnett, much of it to the writing of Gene Towne and Graham Baker, who have developed Clarence Budington Kelland's story into a personal triumph of their own. Always a daring experimenter, Producer Walter Wanger may well find that this defiant...