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From the English public schools Dr. Peabody borrowed much. Groton boys wear stiff white collars at dinner and blue suits on Sunday. They play "fives," a game vaguely like handball which originated at Eton. They have some say in choosing from their number a senior prefect who, with half a dozen ordinary prefects to help him, exercises disciplinary authority over the whole school. They live in "cubicles." small curtained cells, until they reach the upper forms, when they also get studies. At all times they are closely supervised and when they go home for vacations they are told what...
...Brest bold Sub-Prefect Jacques Henry risked lynching by Red mobsters who had torn down the tricolor of France from his Sub-Prefecture and hoisted a Communist banner, to the vast delight of Moscow (see p. 24). While rioters surged around him singing the Internationale, M. Henry grabbed the lanyards and began hauling down the Red flag amid a hail of rivets, bolts and paving stones, one of which bloodied his head. Shouting "Vive la Patrie!", injured Sub-Prefect Henry not only shoved and bluffed his way out of the crowd without giving up the Red flag which...
...delegation saying that they do not wish to be linked with last night's bloodshed which they ascribe to underworld agitators eager for loot." Meeting in a suburb three miles outside Toulon, the arsenal workers cheered their regular leaders, who urged them to return to work. Said Prefect Maunier grimly: "If the workers recommence their rioting, it will be their misfortune. We are ready for them now: In future Toulon will be so strongly guarded that any outbreak will be quickly mastered...
...limousine every prefect took home mimeographed copies of the 40 or more new decrees. These, in addition to launching the public works program, set up Government agencies for combatting unemployment (chiefly by limiting workers of alien nationality) and to enforce reduction of meat prices, lower bread prices already having been decreed. Fiscal measures, newly decreed, reduce the inheritance tax on farms, stiffen bankruptcy laws to protect creditors, reduce the profit permitted on contracts with the State, increase the profit tax paid by directors of large concerns, reduce the interest rates on commercial loans and generally contribute in involved fashion...
...comeback M. Chiappe had gambled high. A Corsican, he was naturally sympathetic to France's extreme right parties. During the preliminary riots before bloody Feb. 6, 1934, Prefect Chiappe was charged with allowing Royalists and Fascists to riot their heads off, smashing Communist and Socialist demonstrations ruthlessly. Socialists asked and got the head of Prefect Chiappe as the price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco...