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Groans of an oppressed clutch are heard as the truck hauls away in vain at the wall. It aways but will not give in. All the boys are depressed. "Goez, no fun," is their thought. But a sub-foreman with a Daniel Boone cap on has I'idee du jour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hemenway Gymnasium Collapses Before Vicious Onslaughts of House Wreckers Who Cheer Wildy As They Tear It Down | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

Fortnight ago when the Cabinet of Camille Chautemps fell, France dropped into something approaching political chaos (TIME, Jan. 24). Last week after everyone available had tried in vain to form a new Cabinet, France emerged from chaos with M. Chautemps once more Premier. His new Cabinet, as finally set up, excluded the Communists, dropped the Socialists, was comprised exclusively of his own moderate, middle-class party, the Radical Socialists who are a minority in the Chamber. But so relieved were all parties to see a government set up, that the Chamber approved the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Butter And Cannon | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile, hurrying from Richmond, Que. by automobile in the vain hope of finding their 12-year-old son alive, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gendron were struck by an express train, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sauve-Qui-Petit | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...melodramatic cloak, the haunting refrain of the title song, and the character performances of Oscar Homolka and Barry Fitzgerald play innumerable variations on the Central theme. No matter how low a man may descend, while there is grace in his soul he need not be living in vain...

Author: By M. F. F., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...known that Dr. Adler always carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake, they arrested him. In vain Dr. Adler continued to protest right up to last week that "it is for use only in Germany and Italy." An unsympathetic Dutch court last week sentenced him to four months in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Al Frey | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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