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A veteran of international congresses, which she has been attending to expound her theories of child education all over Europe since the turn of the Century, the Dottoressa was welcomed by Danish newspapers as "the greatest living Italian orator." Using no notes, waiting patiently for her interpreters, last week the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Montessori in Copenhagen | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

The way to win back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve such old favorite Socialist "reforms" as nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber. "Remember how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Blum Is in Power! | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

It proved popular talk for to Socialist rank-&-filers the Senate is anathema because of the way it is elected. Deputies to the Chamber are chosen all at once by universal male suffrage, either at four-year intervals or whenever the President ascertains that no Premier can find a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Blum Is in Power! | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

That afternoon Premier Blum and Finance Minister Auriol went at 3:30 p. m. to ask the Chamber of Deputies for "full powers." Frenchmen have long memories and everyone recalled how, when Premier Aristide Briand made a similar request in 1926, it was Deputy Léon Blum who cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluff & Blum | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

The annual literary exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be on Friday. The exercises, which are open to the public, will begin at 11:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. John G. Winant, former Chairman of the Social Security Board and former Governor of New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Program In Prose | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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