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...speaking figuratively, sarcastically. There was an election last week, in which 19 Mexicans were killed, 23 wounded, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, government-supported candidate, was elected by a reputed majority of 700,000 to serve as President for the remaining four years, nine months and 23 days of the six-year term of assassinated president-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
Alain Gerbault, French sportsman, arrived on his 30-foot sloop Firecrest in Le Havre amid whistles and cheers after a six-year cruise alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When...
There are various ways of teaching "good citizenship"-presumably a major aim of education. In Scarsdale, N. Y., the schoolchildren who trip matutinally to the two elementary schools or the six-year High School are taught in terms of business. Teacher gives them a lesson which is considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor...
...prophecies by the occasion which prompted them. He spoke on the eve of the most important day the rubber industry has seen in six years. Fortunately, the day gave happy instead of dismal point to Dr. Klein's vision of a rubberless world. For on Nov. 1, the six-year British experiment in restricting export of rubber from Malaya came to an abrupt and official...
...career ran a course similar to that of many senators. From the Missouri Legislature he graduated into the House for three Congresses. On November 2, 1926, he was elected to fill out the term of the late Senator S. P. Spencer, which expired in 1927, and to serve a six-year term until...