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Word: haves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princesses and Cooks. In Biarritz, where the fashion houses Lanvin and Patou have shops, arrived last week Mme Louis Cartier to open a shop next door-her personal piece of family war work. Installed in the Casino de Bellevue is the leading eye, ear, nose & throat hospital of France, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

In Great Britain the honorary president of a vast pyramid of women's war organizations is Queen Elizabeth, whose wardrobe contains a choice assortment of female uniforms (TIME, Oct. 9). Last week in Paris petite Eve Curie, newly installed as Chief of the Feminine Section of the Ministry of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Defense Passive. Such general war work as French women have time for, after doing their own, is attended to by thousands of small committees organized in cities and towns, with no coordinating or super-organization. They do a specific job in a specific place, and their general attitude, emphasized by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

A larger organization of this kind is Defense Passive, a corps of women who, if there ever are any air raids, will drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Only other World War II women's organization in France with a uniform-none was uniformed in World War I-is the Section Automobile Feminine Française. This is composed of about 1,200 definitely wealthy women, each owning her own car, for only the rich have cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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