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...which they had been working for five years and had it formally signed. Thus last week gentle President Moscicki, a brilliant scientist but an uncertain politician, found himself with enormous paper powers. He has absolute veto over Parliament, he can take command of the Army and Navy, and dismiss Parliament by decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Death of the Walrus | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...President, two thirds are elected by a group known as the Elite: males who have won either of two high Polish military decorations. The Elders, in other words, are the Elite who are the old friends of the Cafe Europejska, the Colonels. The President in theory can dismiss them. The Colonels knew that never, never would President Moscicki dream of such a thing, and they alone have the power to force the election of his successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Death of the Walrus | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Ordinance for Safeguarding the Independence of the Newspaper Publishing System. This suppressed the newsorgans of all German religious groups. Exempting from interference papers published by Nazis or the Government, it made all employes of other German papers direct appointees of Max Amann who can dismiss anyone at pleasure. Not only newspaper staffs and owners but "even creditors" must be Aryans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Press Purge | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...course the high point in the Princeton season will be the Carnegie Cup Race in which they will meet Cornell, Yale, and Navy. Sikes will not permit any looking past the Compton and Childs Cup Races to this regatta at Ithaca, but unconsciously the men cannot dismiss from their minds the fanatical desire to dump the Eli jiux...

Author: By The DAILY Princetonian, | Title: Tiger Oarsmen Invade Cambridge; Competent Eights Expecting Victory | 4/26/1935 | See Source »

Speaking more soberly for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Managing Editor Roy Wilkins of The Crisis declared that it was "a great mistake to dismiss the riot as a demonstration of a few Communists and agitators." Dr. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches, echoed this view: "We cannot make the Communists the scapegoats for a basic condition which made possible such a hysteric outburst." Most sociologists agreed with Dr. Searle that the "basic condition" was economic discrimination against New York's Negroes, which had in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAGES: Mischief Out of Misery | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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