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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minister Guy La Chambre and Film Director Rene Clair. In 1916 Heriat gave up his studies to enlist, fought for 20 months. His first book, The Lamb, won the Renaudot Prize in 1931. The Spoiled Children, winner of the Goncourt, is his seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...seventh to hold the Ames Scholarship. The others have been Richard B. Johnson '36, C. Colmery Gibson '37, John B. Bowditch '37, Sheldon Ware '38, J. Spence Harvin '39, and Lawrence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fernald Is Given Ames Memorial Scholarship | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...limiting the voice of its Communist members to their proportional representation, the Student Union will be neither red-baiting nor crimping the freedom of speech. For their unimportance in numbers -- merely a seventh of the total membership -- the Y.C.I., has had authority within the Student Union far in excess of its democratic privilege. Skilful infiltration into key posts has enabled them to hold their ground although far from representing majority opinion. And yet the blame for Communist leadership cannot be placed on their shoulders. They are only too eager to carry the load of committee chairmanships and organization. With their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...Dodge plant, then others in Detroit, Indiana and California, by slowing down on the job just as new models were coming out. Chrysler unionists voted, 25,402 to 2,030, to make it a formal strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called. Why Peace? The bad news from Detroit had been like powder smoke to U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Trouble Over | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Next in rapid succession, came second grade reading, reading for the primer tots, third grade reading, fourth grade arithmetic, sixth grade arithmetic (long division seventh grade arithmetic. Lest classes fall behind schedule, Miss Campbell did most of the talking, prodded her pupils to hurry By day's end, Miss Campbell had taught her classes reading, writing, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, history, science. Total amount of instruction for each grade: 50 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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