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...body of the N. R. A. ought not to blind him to the disadvantages consequent upon setting up two bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations covering a common territory with slightly varying policy (the Labor Department being the more Leftist of the twain), has lead not only to a dis-economy of effort but very real friction. Turning the mediation work of the N.R.A. back to its proper setting in the existing department, and, while they're at it, pushing the statistical branches over to the Department of Commerce would...
Matter of fact the whole Leftist Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps had been lashed for four excruciating hours by Rightist Deputy Philippe Henriot who monopolized the Chamber tribune, made the most of the French right of free speech. To hear him rant, the whole Cabinet were accomplices of "Handsome Alexandra" Stavisky, the $30,000,000 Bayonne pawnshop Ponzi (TIME, Jan. 15, 22). Accuser Henriot was sure that the Government "murdered" Stavisky whose body was found by Secret Service agents weltering in his blood at the Alpine resort of Chamonix, apparently a suicide. But Accuser Henriot went further. "When the unmarried...
...Roosevelt that members of the Soviet Government would abstain from fomenting Communism in the U. S., is the Soviet Encyclopaedia's flat statement that in 1929 Stalin flayed both the German and U. S. Communist Parties for their "rightist opportunism"-i.e. their failure to foment Communism with sufficient "leftist violence...
...CENTRE--RIGHT. While Dr. Mather was chatting with his assistants before opening the mysteries of Geol. 1 Lecture 3 some wit authoritatively approached the blackboard, and changed the writing on the wall to RIGHT CENTRE LEFT. The first tremors of the quake were now felt. A hundred or more leftist students, eager for Change, girded their loins and marched through the CENTRE RIGHT. Simultaneously the stalwart reactionaries of the RIGHT goose stepped over to the LEFT side. The resulting scrimmage around CENTRE gave the delicate seismograph upstairs a bad case of jitters, and fear was felt for Costa Rica...