Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of the King's subjects the King's golf is something to groan over rather than cheer about. It opens a revealing little window on the controversial, headstrong personality whose possible return to the throne has put the Kingdom of the Belgians in a constitutional dither and a cabinet deadlock...
...hear a two-hour lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers for shipment to America; in return the U.S. shipped low-grade corn meal to Japan. They discussed the Atlantic pact as "The Prelude to World...
Belgium's Christian Socialists, who had fallen just short of an absolute majority (TIME, July 4), last week sought to form a coalition cabinet. Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland pledged an "unflinching" fight for return of exiled King Leopold III. The Liberal Party shunned "rash decisions" on the royal question; they wanted tax cuts first. The Socialists growled ominously: if Leopold came back, they would call a general strike. As the tense maneuvering between the parties continued, it seemed that Belgium's royal question would have no easy answer...
Philosopher Joad especially deplores the technological-democratic tendency in education, which "seeks to enable a man to acquire a living rather than to acquire a life worth living." He advises "a return to . . . classical-humanism ... I would suggest that every student, whatever other subject he may be studying, should take . . . a compulsory course in the history and problems of philosophy, supplemented by the history of scientific ideas...
...years, though increasing in value less than the New York Stock Exchange's average of all listed stocks. In Keystone's best-performing stock fund, the investment grew to $22,875. I-1 dividends alone, Keystone's "52" stock fund led with an 8.8% return, followed by M.I.T. with...