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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most likely to be M. le Président No. 6 to finish the full term of office is the incumbent, Albert Lebrun, whose seven years as "prisoner of Marianne" end May 10. Last week, the Cabinet of Premier Edouard Daladier set the date for the next election. On April 5 the members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will, according to tradition, travel to Versailles, eleven miles from Paris, constitute themselves into a National Assembly and, in the Palace of Louis XIV, elect by majority vote the 15th President of the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: M. le President | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Borican led the pack through the half in an incredible 1153.2. Then Glenn Cunningham went out after him. At the end of five laps, with only the bell lap to go, Glenn was on the flying Negro's heels. Down the backstretch, Glenn put on his famous finishing sprint, tried to edge around Borican's shoulder. But Borican, wise in track ways, moved out. When Glenn tried to slither inside him, he moved toward the rail. He was still in front as the pair flashed over the finish line. When the time was announced the crowd went wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Record Time | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Those Canadians, individually and collectively, made sure of their titles last week, the final of the league season. McGill repulsed Dartmouth, the last remaining American threat, for its ninth victory in ten games. McConnell added two points on assists to his total in that contest to finish with 43 points and complete his work of spread-eagling the rest of the league's offensive artists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Seek League Crowns As McGill Takes Hockey Title | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...night last week pretty Mrs. Dorothy Barber of Kansas City grabbed a candy bar, packed up some clothes, and walked to General Hospital. "I want to stay here," she said between bites. "I want to eat all the time. I can finish a normal meal and be back in the kitchen in ten minutes, eating again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Starving Glutton | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Eager to see Stagehand, No. i money winner of 1938, repeat his performance of the fortnight before, when he snatched the McLennan Handicap from Warren Wright's promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter Winners | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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