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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your quotation (TIME, Nov. 5) from President-elect Cardenas of Mexico, to the effect that the time has come for that country to prepare for a new life and outlook, gets to the heart of the matter without mincing words. As one who was expelled from the republic when a Protestant mission school was closed (Instituto del Pueblo, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Feb. 15, 1926), I feel that TIME errs in that it does not state that there is a parallel between the present trouble in Mexico and that of the Orthodox Church and the Soviet Government some years...
...undergraduates, contain no imagination. Philosophy is a difficult subject at best to teach to undergraduates, but if it could be done through a history of philosophic thought, given interestingly and imaginatively, it probably could be made more palatable to the men who elect it, and it would also give to them some idea of the history of the philosophic attitude toward knowledge and life...
...point was raised that Mickal was a Syrian, under 21, and a resident of Mississippi, hence unable to qualify for the job. The "Kingfish" retorted that his Legislature would seat Senator-elect Mickal and that was all there was to it. "Mississippi has annexed itself to Louisiana," he observed, "anyhow. Napoleon came 'rom Corsica, didn...
Ever since the tin-cup campaigns reorganization at the Metropolitan has seemed inevitable. Gatti's resignation, long rumored (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932, et seq.), merely focused in the headlines the necessity for change. When the directors choose to elect Gatti's successor, Chairman Cravath and his associates have a long list of applicants to consider...
President-elect of IHA is Sir Francis Towle (pronounced Toll), managing director of Gordon Hotels, Ltd. which owns, among others, London's Mayfair, Metropole and Grosvenor. His brother Arthur Edward, also in Manhattan last week, runs the biggest hotel chain outside the U. S., a string of smaller places the length & breadth of the British Isles. On the side he directs the dining-car, restaurant and hotel division of London, Midland & Scottish...