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...Third Republic of France, in 69 years of sturdy life, has had 14 Presidents. Of these only five have served their full seven-year terms-Emile Loubet, Armand Falliéres, Raymond Poincaré, Gaston Dou-mergue. Jules Grévy. Six have resigned. Adolphe Thiers, Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train...
...from a loan his bank made to a firm reselling Government steel after the War (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937, et seq.). This year another judge ordered him to pay damages of $651,579 for selling at too low a price some oil lands belonging to certain Lazard Frères heirs in 1915-17. Although he has appealed both cases. Herbert Fleishhacker last week cited them in turning in his resignation. "I feel," said he, "that the best interests of the bank may be prejudiced by my serving as president. . . ." When judgments of $736,485 were returned against...
...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 Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. Pro-Franco Spanish Cardinal Goma went to visit pro-Hitler...
Battle of Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox). At an American Legion convention, ex-Doughboys Brian Donlevy and Victor McLaglen are pleased to meet tall, dark-haired, full-lipped ex-Strip Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee who sings "I am the Daughter of Mademoiselle from Armentières." When she continues...
Harvard upheld the Negative of the proposition, "Res. that Congress should enact a regional power program embodying the principles of the T. V. A." in encounters with John Marshall College in Jersey City on Sunday evening April 3 and with William and Mary University in Williamsburg on Wednesday, April 6. The John Marshall debate was lost and there was no decision in the William and Mary contest. There was also a half-hour discussion of the "Little T. V. A.'s" question with John Marshall on Sunday afternoon over WMCA and the Inter-city network...