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...Frenchman in every 20 holds some sort of Government job. Deputies are elected for four years, can throw out any cabinet at will and neither hell nor high water can budge them. The emergency government of kindly old Gaston Doumergue tried valiantly to pare Government expenditures and failed (TIME, Nov. 19). Knowing what their country was up against, shrewd French investors sent a thin trickle of capital abroad. Then week after week as the condition of French business, the size of the probable deficit, became more & more apparent, the gold flow grew. Last week it was a torrent...
Last week without warning Secretary Morgenthau unlocked his vault and took out almost all the nest egg which was not tied up in the Stabilization Fund. Forthwith he announced that he was about to pare the public debt...
...better ones." 2) By accepting aid in an emergency, colleges will be demoralized into permanent dependence on the Government. "I therefore regard this procedure as little less than deplorable. I think it would be much better to request that colleges readjust themselves at once to a new economic situation, pare their budgets accordingly and go on a reduced enrollment basis...
Three's a Crowd was the next Johnson job. In 1931 he was employed on The Band Wagon. His merry-go-round scene and the Pare Monceau set used a two-way revolving stage for the first time. His colors were strong, but not loud, and his grasp of scenic design was flawless. Then indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have...
Fable probably is Ambroise Pare's report of an Italian woman who bore nine children at one birth, eleven at another...