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...Franklin Roosevelt had thrice changed the traditional date of Thanksgiving Day. Half the U.S. was eating its turkey on "Franksgiving" and the other half on any Thursday they thought more historic. Then an exasperated Congress uprose; henceforth thanks would be given on the fourth Thursday of each November. Franklin Roosevelt last week proclaimed Nov. 23, the fourth Thursday, as Thanksgiving Day. But this year the calendar had ruined the pretty new law: November has five Thursdays, and the traditional Thanksgiving Day has always been the last Thursday. Result: 40 states will eat their turkey on Nov. 23, eight* a week...
...France also had moral obligations to the Spanish Maquis. Through the League of Nations the French Government was seeking legal status* for some 50,000 refugees from Spain. Did this mean that Spanish exiles would henceforth be allowed to carry on political activities in France? Said the Qua! d'Orsay: "It is not yet certain...
...Britain's 45,000 gypsies were going to have to mend their ways-if Professor R. H. Angold of Britain's Gypsy Lore Society had anything to say about it. Noting that Britain's postwar plans take no account of gypsies. Professor Angold demanded that henceforth Britain's gypsies be regarded as useful, not just romantic, citizens...
...Soviet theater differs from ours in almost every respect. The most important difference is its inner structure. Twenty-five years ago, Lenin signed a decree declaring that henceforth all theatrical property in the country would be State property. Now, a quarter of a mellowing century later, the final effect of this decree is that Russian theaters are run very much like private enterprises on a box-office basis-but with this important difference: there can be no such thing as a "turkey" in Moscow. At the moment all Moscow theaters are making money; but if anything went wrong with...
...weeks ago Chiang Kai-shek began to take steps to reform the draft machinery. One of his ablest generals, Chen Cheng, is pushing a reorganization of the Army, to abolish about a third of its theoretical divisions, so that henceforth Chinese Army units will be full strength...