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While the Pennsylvania Property Owners Association warned that "Pennsylvania's public school system is doomed to early collapse," Pennsylvania's educators pleaded with economy-minded Governor Arthur H. James to replenish the special State fund for schools in distressed areas, now exhausted. Having pleaded in vain, nearly 200 teachers last week marched out of 27 schools in Northumberland and Schuylkill Counties, declared they would not go back until they were paid...
After the original deluge of student interest had been organized into well-charted panel discussions, the next day saw the whole conference reconvened in the new debutanted Littauer auditorium where there followed a tidal wave of voluble riot and disorganized debate. In vain did the group mentality strive to find the fruits of its previous well-ordered labor mirrored in the stormy session that questioned deficit finance, public spending, and even the protagonists' intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate...
Lost any Senior who does not know about this apply in vain to M.G.M. or the basement of University Hall, it is stated that the selective process has been accomplished already by members of the Faculty...
Last week Poland got what Czechoslovakia had pleaded for in vain. Before a hushed, crowded House of Commons 70-year-old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, former arch-exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...
...monde (Michele Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except in certain poses, she is nevertheless very appealing, and although her character is at once vain, cruel, tender, and generous, she succeeds in making it credible. If Charles Boyer is overshadowed, it is because the script was so constructed, not because of any weakness in his performance; and the minor characters--even the impossibly naive Gilbert (Robert Manuel) and the eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis...