Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon those taught. She keynoted: 1) Retirement; 2) Tenure; 3) National Recognition of Education. "I believe the time has come when the educators of the country must stand solidly united and resolved to obtain rightful recognition of education in our government." (Miss Jones repudiated the idea of an educational "bloc"; urged the Sterling-Reed Bill for a Federal Department of Education...
Another section of the "will" is a bequest made to Mme. Rasimi (well-known Parisienne entrepreneuse and directress of the Ba-ta-Clan Theatre, where Millerand once delivered a famed address) of "a republic entirely done over and entirely renovated and a demolished National Bloc, all of which is to be used as accessories for a new comedy which is destined to change the Ba-ta-Clan into a Washout Palace...
...Chicago Board of Trade has had its troubles ever since the War. As a result of the speculative crash in the grain markets in 1920, the "farm bloc" imposed many new restrictions upon the organized grain market, and farm organizations have resolved to assume control of the free and open grain market or else deliberately put it out of business...
Significance. President Millerand was ousted because he was determined to be an active leader of France and not a puppet President. The Left stated that he was a partisan of the Bloc National and a reactionary. All these allegations were true enough, but President Millerand had offered to cooperate with the Left and there seemed no legal reason for ousting...
Acting upon the formal advice of MM. Doumergue and Painleve, respectively Presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, President Alexandre Millerand sent for M. Edouard Herriot, Socialist Mayor of Lyons and leader of the Left Bloc...