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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also invisible is the Young Annamite Party, driven into hiding by the French. Much like the Turkish Revolutionists in 1918. the Young Annamites of today demand proclamation of an Annamite Republic. They refer contemptuously to Ping Pong Player Bao Dai as a "French Emperor" and are not above hatching bomb plots against French Governor Pierre Pasquier who has had several narrow escapes...
...TIME quality which readers respect. For TIME to say that Phil Stong's State Fair is "rich in sharp, exact detail" is to trespass on this TIME quality which to the devoted newsmagazine reader is sacred ground. TIME'S review of State Fair was reasonable, but to refer to the book as a standard of accuracy in details of Iowa rural life (p. 33, Sept. 5 issue) is deserving of challenge. Three times Author Stong stubs his toes on pebbles of detail any Iowa 4-H pig club member knows all about. lowans exhibit their pigs in pens...
...handful of important Republicans went to Topeka last week to tell Charles Curtis that he had been renominated for the Vice-Presidency. They did not refer to the fact that about 35% of the delegates at the Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of Senator Arthur Capper's luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter...
...need precedent, as I scarcely do, but for the fullness of measure, may I refer you now to a decision of your illustrious predecessor and namesake and relative, whom everybody was proud of?Theodore Roosevelt?that when he had to pass upon a stock holding of the so-called ice trust that had at that time a contract with the city of New York, and there was a hue and cry raised at the time ?they wanted to hang the Mayor of New York at the nearest lamp post, some people did?and when the matter was brought before...
School Doctors Flayed. Headmaster Cuthbert Harold Blakiston of Lancing College flayed the Public School Boy of today (see p. 15). Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller. honorary director of the Institute of Medical Psychology, flayed Public School doctors. "School teachers?I refer to those who hold teaching certificates? have at least had some training in psychology, whereas we doctors have not. Any knowledge of the subject that the school medical officer may possess he has acquired since graduation. It follows, therefore, that in dealing with such problems as persistent stealing or homosexuality the teacher is more likely than the doctor to have...