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...sought to prevent-invest supreme authority in a single dictator. It would probably abolish both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, substituting for them a single assembly of powerful yes-men. Dispatches from Vichy forecast the establishment of a "corporative" state in which, under Marshal Pétain as titular Chief of State, Vice Premier Laval, General Weygand and Minister of the Interior Marquet would form a power-wielding triumvirate. A regime similar to that of Generalissimo Franco, with whom 84-year-old Marshal Pétain was "tremendously impressed," was generally predicted. While Berlin applauded approvingly, French Cabinet members...
...afternoon last fortnight in Topeka, Kans., a lamb-faced, inoffensive oilman was called to the telephone, invited to lunch at the White House with the President. Alfred Mossman Landon, titular chief of the Republican Party, came away worried. He had just issued a statement praising the President's defense speech. Through the U. S. press blew high, windy talk of national unity. It was known that Mr. Roosevelt had offered Republican Frank Knox-for the second time-the Secretaryship of the Navy. It was reported that the Labor portfolio had been offered to New York City's baggy...
...time was coming, if it were not already at hand, for Benito Mussolini to nudge his titular partner's elbow with proffered aid (see p. 31). If the war continued at its last week's pace and direction, he might have to bestir himself in order to give his partnership any appearance of usefulness or sincerity...
...goods to sell. Germany had everything to gain by peace: removal of the threat of a Northern Front, perhaps more help from a peaceful Russia, a resultant strengthening of prestige and power not only in the North as a peace broker, but in the Balkans, where the Allies are titular protectors as they were supposed to be in Scandinavia...
Most embarrassed was Dr. Frank Porter Graham, who, as president of the University of North Carolina, is also titular head of its subsidiary, North Carolina State. A few years ago Dr. Graham got the Southern Conference to bar subsidization of athletes. But the Conference two years ago repealed the provision in the Graham Plan barring subsidies by alumni, and last week it appeared that there was nothing Dr. Graham could do to keep the Wolfpack away from his door...