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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radical Socialist leaders), Daladier broke up the Rightist Government of Raymond Poincairé by forcing its Radical Socialist ministers to resign. In 1929 he himself first tried to form a Government, but the old veteran statesman, Aristide Briand, prevented that. In 1933 for the first time he got the big job. He lasted nine months as Premier...
...Premier had said, "The role of Don Quixote does not suit me." His answers to Herr Hitler's moves this time were to be not words but alliances and pacts. Three days after CzechoSlovakia's conquest, with another crisis rapidly developing, the Premier again asked for and got his third set of decree powers, valid for eight months more. Thus M. Daladier at the end of his somersault landed right side...
Meantime in Cleveland the 151st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. got out the brown paper and string, showed itself ready & willing to make a neat bundle: itself, the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. (Southern) and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Aggregate membership of this big bundle: about 4,500,000. The Assembly formally invited the Southern Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator...
Lincoln School, a kindergarten-to-college private Progressive school, is operated by Columbia University's Teachers College. It was started in 1917 when Dr. Abraham Flexner, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and harvard's late, great Charles W. Eliot got G. E. B. to put up the money. Later G. E. B. gave Teachers College a $3,000,000 endowment to run Lincoln and a building to house it. Lincoln School became so exemplary an institution that many a bigwig, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., sent his children there. The thousands of teachers who came...
...surprising blue eyes. One morning last week, at Mexico City's airport, he put a rabbit's foot and a holy medal into his wallet, climbed into a five-year-old racing plane, took off in the direction of New York City. Pancho bucked strong head winds, got up at times to 16,000 ft. He had started with 525 gallons, but after passing Philadelphia he began to worry about his gas. When he sighted his destination, Floyd Bennett Field, he decided he was just about dry. So, instead of circling to come in upwind, he streaked...