Word: adee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Constitutional changes already drafted at Algiers are enough to give postwar France a new political façade. Woman suffrage, long sought, would be granted. Prewar France's helter-skelter system of party representation in the Chamber of Deputies would be revised, with elections on a proportional basis. And the position of the Premier and his Cabinet would be strengthened; no longer would Premiers of France be hired & fired like casual help in a Christmas-week rush. All this sounded like the kind of democracy which Charles de Gaulle might gladly head...
Algiers Today. The political scene in Algiers now has an almost unbroken Gaullist façade, by virtue of purge and new personnel. In the strongly Gaullist Consultative Assembly, which convened in Algiers last fortnight, only a four-man Communist bloc including firebrand André Marty may be a source of dissent...
John Jumps Over. Settlement of the coal situation on the Illinois terms would give Lewis a thumping victory, not only for his miners but also against WLB. The Little Steel formula might continue to stand as a façade of Administration anti-inflation policy, but the real working mechanism would be the Illinois formula, which puts more money in the pockets of the workers without raising their hourly rate. (Already, in Chicago, packinghouse workers are preparing to ask slaughterhouse portal-to-portal pay, for time spent putting on work clothes and sharpening knives in the morning; for time spent...
...pride, as he did in 1935 when he defied the sanctions imposed (but not enforced) by the League of Nations during the Ethiopian campaign. Italians rallied behind him then. They may do so more generally now than the Allies expect. At least Mussolini has built up a façade of bravado, patterned on the ancient cry of the gladiators in the Colosseum : "Morituri te salutant" (Those who are about to die salute you). But in case the façade trembles or Darlans gnaw their way through it, Mussolini has made certain that those who helped him to power...
California's fabulous, far-flung banking Gianninis last week went farther into the U.S. war production than any other bankers. The Gianninis, never orthodox bankers, were all set to buy up-&-coming Ade Precision Products Corp. (Burbank, Calif.), specialist in aviation hydraulic and de-icing equipment. Actual purchase will be made by Giannini's $140,000,000 Transamerica Corp., which will swap about $1,700,000 worth of its Bank of America stock for 95% of outstanding Adel shares...