Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Poincaré allegedly has no internal policy. He has been urged to state what he will do by members of the Bloc National, which leans toward the Right without taking in the Royalists, and to which M. Poincaré belongs. His answers were found unsatisfactory, with the result that the leaders of the Block National went over his head and approached President Millerand direct, as it was the latter who, with ex-Premer Clemenceau, founded the Bloc in 1919, when Millerand made his famed Ba-Ta-Clan speech (so named from the Paris theatre in which the speech...
...Birmingham's exclusive clubs?and all other kinds?will be as blue hereafter as city and State laws can make them. Commissioner of Safety W. C. Bloc issued an order today that Sunday golf, billiards and dominoes be stopped, beginning tomorrow...
Such inconsistency is to be expected when the aims of the movement are altered from one session to the next. Its protest at one time takes the form of a bonus bloc, then of a farm bloc, and now a railroad bloc. The present phase, the railroad bloc, like those preceeding it, lacks unity as to personnel and policies. The Wisconsin-Minnesota group seems to predominate, huddled together behind La Follette who has produced no clear-cut plan for administering the railroads...
...majority selections for Vice President went to Senator Arthur B. Capper of Kansas (head of the farm bloc), James W. Girard and Senator Frazier of North Dakota respectively...
...result of a stinging exchange of personal charges through the newspapers, M. Camille Aymard, political director of La Liberté and famed big game hunter, challenged M. Herriot, leader of the Radical bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, to a duel, and sent Ernest Outrey, Deputy for Indo-China, and M. Maspero, ex-Governor of Indo-China, to M. Herriot, as his seconds. They were referred to Deputies Edouard Daladier and Alexandre Varenne, seconds for M. Herriot. The seconds were to meet to decide whether a duel was warranted and, if so, how it was to be fought...