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In agreement, Mr. Tobin, Chairman of the Student Council Committee on Education, argues intelligently for the restoration of distribution requirements, two courses in the natural sciences, and two in the humanities. He realizes that Harvard's fear of seeming to follow the University of Chicago might be an obstacle to...

Author: By Robert B. Davis, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Last week in St. Louis "Buster" Dewey took off his gloves, fitted brass knuckles over his fingers and slugged: "The record of the New Deal is one of broken promises, contempt for free institutions and abuse of power. . . . The platforms were worthless. . . The erosion of character in this Administration began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Republicans | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

For 18 years since that day, Archduke Otto has devoted his life, with the sober zeal of a Gilbert & Sullivan clown prince, to the cause of Restoration outlined in that childish paper. From Madeira the impoverished family moved to Spain, where 40 Spanish grandees bought them a villa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HABSBURG EMPIRE: Clown Prince | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

One Imperial tradition in the fulfillment of which Otto has disappointed his family is that a ruling Habsburg should marry royal blood. His backers begin to despair of his ever marrying. Once he was exposed to a young, pretty Hungarian Countess. The courtiers left the two pointedly alone in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HABSBURG EMPIRE: Clown Prince | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Far more self-conscious than the Austro-Hungarian colony in the U. S. are the White Russians. Some 12,000 of them pine for restoration of a Tsar in the person of Grand Duke Vladimir, son of Grand Duke Cyril. The Whites boast a few great and a few notorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HABSBURG EMPIRE: Clown Prince | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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