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Aroused & United. With the French Senate at white heat Premier Flandin, recognizing that historic French individualism is menaced as never before by historic German capacity to goosestep behind a leader, launched a paradoxical appeal to Frenchmen to do as the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Facts v. Truths | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...summer training camps all over Italy, had the honor of marching past Il Duce and the 100 generals. For the first time the boys were given real rifles. One hundred yards from the reviewing stand each unit clicked into Mussolini's latest invention, the new Fascist half-goosestep which is executed with the left arm and left leg swinging out stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Excelsior! | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...take you behind the scenes of that invisible government which is now ruling America, including its schools. Pages 22 to 59 show in detail what this invisible government is doing to the schools of one large American City--Los Angeles, (etc.): The concluding chapters discuss 'The Goosestep' and its critics and developments in the college world since its publication." It is all completely damning, completely integrated...

Author: By H. B., | Title: HUMANIZING EDUCATION. By Samuel D. Schmalhausen. The Macaulay Co., New York, 1927. $2.50. | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Goosestep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Providence, R. I., one Joseph de Virgilio, adult, put on a pair of stilts. As he stalked northward, his ungainly shadow flickered and staggered-first on his right, then under his stamping stilts, then finally, long and frightening, bending and kicking in a fantastic goosestep, over road and into meadow on his left. At last, in Boston, having covered 45 miles in 12 hr., 20 min.,* Joseph de Virgilio flopped down from his five-foot, 15-pound poles. His legs, swollen to far above their normal size, could not support him; he was carried moaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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