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Heavy with dramatic overtones, the trial opened in the beige and dark oak Salle d'Assises, where watchmen at night saw the ghosts of the profligate Dukes of Berry and Bourbon, lingering on from the Middle Ages. The accused were two for mer Premiers, Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum, the once-great Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Air Minister Guy La Chambre* and a controller general of a once-great Army, Pierre Jaco-met. The accusation originally had been that they led France to war, but now the Vichy Government had watered down the charge to "betrayal of duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Remembrance of Things Past | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...army gets the fish? What does it matter whether the AF of L or the CIO organizes the Budd Manufacturing Company, so long as MacArthur gets the tanks? If the defense effort keep on going the way it is going now, Mrs. Roosevelt will be hanging from the nearest oak tree, John L. Lewis will be dangling right next to her, and Henry Ford won't know what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News of the Week | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

Andrew H. Wright '45 of Columbus, Ohio and Holworthy was selected chairman of the Freshman Committee, and James J. McNulty '45 of Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer was elected secretary, Phillips Brooks House announced yesterday. Wright succeeds George M. Burditt, Jr. '44 at the head of the Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wright, McNulty Will Head PBH Freshman Committee | 2/12/1942 | See Source »

...downhill race is set for this morning on Moose Mountain, 11 miles from Hanover, and the cross-country for this afternoon over an eight-mile Hanover course. The slalom will be held tomorrow morning at Oak Hill, and the jumping tomorrow afternoon at the big jump on the golf course...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline, | Title: Schussers Try Again At Dartmouth Meet | 2/6/1942 | See Source »

...prize winners are: Mandel Berman, Dotroit, Mich, Philip Coldwell, Clevoland, Ohio, Harry H. Cornelius, Oak Park, Ill, Maxwell L, Elliott, Atlanta, Ga., Robert Shun-Hslaug Lee, Hong Kong, China, Robert D. Orr, Evansville, Ind., Philip W. Orth, Milwankee, Wis., John F.Porter, Los Angeles, Calif., Jerome F. Scott, Minneapolis, Minn., Robert W.Zimmerman, Minneapolis, Minn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Essay Prizes Awarded To Business Students | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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