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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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: "Rather than grant such powers, I would prefer that this country had a king!" No less than six French Premiers who have asked for "full powers" were fought on this issue by MM. Blum & Auriol. In 1934 they accused that mild political tabby Premier Gaston ''Papa" Doumergue, who died last week (see p. 28), of asking...
Although Mayor White has not yet gone so far as to urge elimination of all the beach artists, he deplores the trend toward commercialism, would prefer a return to the oldtime "innocuous" status, intimates that he will take steps if boardwalkers are further bothered by money-chiseling sand-chiselers who persist in erecting by their studios such poems as: Kind words I like to hear To praise I'm deferential Criticisms I get now & then But the coins are the things essential...
...could not or would not keep her from prison. After an ingenious jail delivery engineered by her friends, when she was nearly at the Finnish border and safety, the two lovers met again. Whether neither or both or one crossed the border is a secret any adventure author would prefer readers to discover for themselves...
Those cinemaddicts whose weakness is Laurel & Hardy, but who prefer to get these characters in short, excruciating doses, should be pleased with Pick a Star. Little Mr. Laurel and fat Mr. Hardy are presented in their own persons as stars on a comedy lot, apparently that of Mr. Roach. Says Simpleton Laurel to the di rector: "When am I supposed to look dumb...
...little independent than the chain, for the supermarket can undersell them both (TIME, May 24). Moreover the supermarket, doing on the average ten times as much business as a single chain store unit, counts as only one store for taxation purposes. But what chain-store men would prefer to either the supermarket or the voluntary chain would be to persuade the public that anti-chain store legislation amounts to subsidizing inefficient or outmoded independent retailers at the consumer's expense...