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From long practice Mr. Chamberlain knows, the advantage of cracking an early jest to distract his victims from the impending thumbscrew of his Budget revelations. Last year he said: "Perhaps I may liken this budget to the uncertain glories of an April Day." This year if he had drawn on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Soak-the-Rich | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Though 5,000.000 French workers, benefiting from cultured, straggle-haired Socialist Premier Blum's new social laws, are enjoying a 40-hour working week, there was plenty of discontent in France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Blum's Blues | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Mr. Babson also winters in Florida, where, in addition to his southern Babson Park, he owns a 12,000-acre ranch. There a fortnight ago he wound up his annual winter business conference, which is a small edition of the conference he holds at Babson Park, Mass. in the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Propheteer | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Turning aside from his organization drives for the moment, the Sit-Down's boldest tactician, C. I. O. Boss Lewis, resumed his role as president of United Mine Workers, settled down in Manhattan for a long haggle with soft-coal operators over a new two-year wage & hour contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sit-Down Spread | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Pushkin's widely known work, the tragedy "Boris Godunov," which formed the basis of a famous opera by Moussorgsky, is represented by a first edition copy, published in St. Petersburg, 1831, and originally part of the library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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