Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenchmen and the Future. In any event, Britons and Americans only fool themselves if they assume that they and the Frenchmen of France will necessarily judge Gaullism's deeds and plans in the same way. France, for example, does not forget the decadence of her "free" (and freely bought) prewar press, the wartime sins of the Vichy press. Nor has she forgotten the rot in the frame of her prewar democracy...
...manner of the classic Socratic discussions, they discussed such problems as the attitude of the returning veterans toward maintenance of controls, the position of the more conservative elements in the government on this question, the practical working out of demobilization in the event that the war's end should assume two phases rather than the one with which America had to deal last time, and various associated problems...
...this kill-or-cure atmosphere, some 250 fur ranchers and buyers gathered last week in downtown Manhattan for an event of prime potential importance to the $500,000,000-a-year U.S. fur industry...
After 30 years, the nine members of the famed Harvard crew which rowed its way to victory in the Henley Regattas on the Thomas in England will reassemble and once more take to the Charles in a shell. The event will take place tomorrow at 5 o'clock, when the "nine old men" sally forth from the Weld Boathouse once more to do or die for the Crimson...
...only is the increased population satirized but the crowded housing conditions are also subjected to fun-poking. The plot concerns an Army officer who comes home on furlough just after his wife has had a blessed event. From then on, complications galore set in and every casual visitor to the household becomes involved. Before the evening is over, the apartment is filled with expectants, while an aged and feeble doctor, who steals the show, tries to cope with their difficulties...