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...this New Dealers abandoned their discreet silence on old-age pensions, accused Republicans of trying to "intimidate" labor. In his speech at Worcester, last week, Franklin Roosevelt volleyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Forgotten Tax | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...pans, some from Buckingham Palace and others from His Majesty's suburban snuggery Fort Belvedere, were turned over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason. Also transferred to the King's favorite were the King's crack chauffeur, George Ladbrooke, complete with a discreet black Canadian Buick sedan and the King's personal bodyguard of many years, 200 lb. Chief Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...matters now stand, tutors are overburdened with students, many of their tutees lack the interest and ability to gain by their efforts and expenditure of time. Yet the enlargement of the staff is financially impossible. The obvious solution is a discreet reduction of students working under the tutorial system based on careful observation of their ability during the crucial sophomore year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIGHTENING THE LOAD | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

...troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight ago divided in a split so drastic that Vienna Heimwehr Leader Major Emil Fey last week actually challenged to a duel the aristocratic founder of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Sly Dr. Schuschnigg has for months been taking discreet measures to under mine the Prince's power and last spring jockeyed him out of the post of Vice-Chancellor (TIME, May 26). When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: Live Chancellor, Dead Premier | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...rate discreet questionaires went out to the "carefully sifted" undergraduates yesterday requesting such anatomical data as "Where is your family's seat (or home)?" The words in parenthesis were added, it is suspected, for reasons obvious to the lay mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Social Register of Harvardmen" Sifts Out Undergraduates in Highest Society | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

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