Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent issue [TIME, May 30], under the caption "Castle Collector''. . . you referred to "smoky Cardiff...
Except for England's No. 1 Dorothy Round Little, whose recent marriage prevented her from defending the championship, all the best women tennists were entered: Chile's Anita Lizana (U. S. champion), France's Simone Mathieu (French champion), California's Dorothy Bundy (Australian champion), Poland's Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska (last year's runner-up at Wimbledon), Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, California's Alice Marble, Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody. Of the two most famed rivals, Helen Jacobs, out of recent competition because of an injured shoulder, was not even seeded...
...talk than usual. Before the meeting began, a teacher tossed a firecracker at the American Legion (see col. 2). At an opening session, New York University's short, blunt Professor Alonzo Franklin Myers proposed that U. S. teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates became even more uncomfortable (though some cheered) when Professor Goodwin Watson, of Columbia's Teachers College, praised the cooperative achievements of Soviet Russia...
...recent abortive, Nazi-labeled Brazilian revolt is evidence that totalitarian propaganda sometimes backfires. Sometimes totalitarian economics backfire, too, and last week it was disclosed that the U. S. had nudged Germany out of No. 1 place as exporter to Brazil, that Brazil was starting to cut down her German trade...
Commonweal's reversal last week called attention to a widening split among Catholics over Spain. The publications of the British Dominican order (Blackfriars) and the French Dominicans (La Vie Intellectuelle), and the (Dominican-inspired) secular Temps Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges Bernanos, French Catholic and Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World...