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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Aristide Briand, whose intrigue was supposed to have brought down No. 18, and who told Chautemps whom to pick as Ministers for No. 19, did not speak. The leaders seemed to want the Chamber itself to speak decisively, if it could. Perhaps they knew it could not. By the meaningless vote of 277 to 292 the Cabinet, a Government of the Left-Center fell. Only a fortnight earlier No. 18, a Government of the Right-Center fell by the equally inscrutable vote...
...cannot say that we have ever had much sympathy for the Harvard nonchalance, the veneer of aloofness and superficial polish which is in the mind of the Middle West the chief characteristic of the Harvard product. Surface sophistication is as meaningless as a cup of sugar and cream and hot water without coffee...
Just as eagerly awaited as the new Ford models were details of the Ford program for 1930. Cynics who had said that his wage-raise (TIME, Dec. 2) was meaningless because of the number of men laid off were less sure when they learned that the payroll, reduced during retooling for the new model, was increased at the rate of 600 to 700 men a day as soon as production began again. Then last week the Ford Co. announced that its 1930 expenditures will exceed $30,000,000 making it obvious that the Ford product during this year will...