Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bustling up to Moscow last week went famed Leon Jouhaux, the portly "Tsar of French trade unionism." During last year's active "New Deal" period in France, pot-bellied Tsar Jouhaux was a hero to millions of workers who credited him with browbeating the Cabinet of Socialist Leon Blum into decreeing nationwide shorter hours, vacations with pay. After Socialist Blum was succeeded this year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive...
Colleges cooperating in the plan, in addition to admitting without examination, have also agreed to relax the 15 unit requirement. No decision can be made on the success of this move until elaborate data is compiled over a period of several years...
...York. This year St. Mary's football season was spoiled by money troubles, and Fordham had been tied only by Pittsburgh. As expected, Fordham bruised and bumped St. Mary's all over the field, three times scored touchdowns that were called back. In the third period Joe Woitkoski finally scored the one that beat St. Mary...
...difference is that Martin du Gard avoids detailed accounts of the social and economic background, tells his story in succinct, dramatic scenes. Suggestive, lucid, ironic. The Thibaults is written with a restraint that reminds some French critics of Flaubert, with a serenity of tone that is extraordinary in a period of impassioned argumentative prose...
...centuries, he says, all men have agreed on man's ideal goal: liberty, peace, justice, brotherly love. The catch has been that nobody could agree on which road to take. Now "most of the peoples of the world are rapidly moving away from it. . . .At no period of the world's history has organized lying been practiced so shamelessly. . . . Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley, is to stop whoring after the false gods of Fascism and Communism, heed those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity...