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...Doumergue, Death's visit to his parlor (see above) was the climax to an exhausting week. At long last France saw prospects of a balanced budget, when the Cabinet met with President Lebrun and signed five of the emergency decrees outlined fortnight ago (TIME, April 16) which will pare $264,000,000 from government expenses. BUT the balance will be possible only if France's gigantic army of civil servants and her War veterans agree to accept the projected cuts in salaries and pensions...
...President-elect, a bank holiday, a many-decked New Deal, a World Fair, Mae West, the midget on Mr. Morgan's lap, Repeal, Rolphing- last year they all laid headlines across the country, inked rotogravures, filled newsreels drumtight and gave Vanity Fair's (then) Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz an idea. With an eye on Laurence Stallings' photostory, The First World War (whose pictures have boomed in more than 50 newspapers-TIME, Feb. 26), Cinemacritic Lorentz edited the pictures of the first New Deal year, pictures of the war on Depression. Last week he published the result with captions...
...naval treaty, General Araki hinted, should place the U. S., Britain and Japan on a basis of parity, instead of the present 5-5-3 ratio. Flaying Japanese Finance Minister Takahashi, who is des perately trying to pare down the Japanese Army & Navy estimates, War Minister...
...first time, a Second Freshman team will be organized, with a regular schedule of games with nearby preparatory schools and the Freshman elevens of other colleges. The approximately 200 candidates who annually turn out for Freshman football make such an unwieldy squad that it is necessary to pare the number to about 50 the first week. In the past the rest have gone immediately to the dormitory teams. This year those who really want to make a team will be kept on the Second squad, while those who are taking the sport to fulfill the physical education requirement will play...
...will be bombarded by recommendations from all over the country, and it will be a truly Gargantuan task to choose five or six Junior Fellows out of the mass of material available. The Committee will have to place some reliance on course grades and college records in attempting to pare down the number at the outset, but the greatest care must be taken to avoid too much reliance on such a system of selection. Oral contacts are obviously the most satisfactory method to employ, but no one method can truly judge the intellectual capabilities of any man. In the ultimate...