Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...However, there is nothing in the message which will give encouragement to the farm bloc in their insistence that freight rates on agricultural products should be further reduced, or to those who advocate confiscation of property by unfair methods of valuation...
...stating that the U. S. attitude was perfectly logical in consequence of her not having signed the Versailles Treaty, upon which the French Government based its attitude to the conference. It is likely, however, that the French Premier will have to face a storm from the Radical bloc. In Belgium the U. S. withdrawal was regarded as certain to cause the fall of Premier Theunis, who had leaned heavily on U. S. intervention, so heavily that Paris was considered unlikely to be able to restore his equilibrium in Brussels. In Italy, the solemn-faced Dictator, Premier Benito Mussolini, was " gravely...
...York, is preparing a resolution requesting President Coolidge to call an international economic conference. The Administration wants no conference while France is in her present mood. But Democrats believe that the farmers are eager for a conference that will stabilize European finance. A union of Democrats and the Farm Bloc on this proposal might easily embarrass the Administration...
...results of lower rates are not viewed with pleasure is known by the fact that the common stock of these companies took a "paid drop of several points on the New York Stock Exchange when the President's proposal was noised abroad. There are members of the farm bloc, like Senators Brookhart and La Follette, who would probably derive keen pleasure from the wrecking of a few railroads. Aside from pleasing such Neroes, President Coolidge's idea seems not only futile but dangerous...
...Government, under the leadership of Colonel Gonatas, asked Alexander Zaimes, former Premier, to accept the leadership of a National Bloc Party. He refused after some hesitation, but offered to form a new Party with all the features of a coalition Government. The Government accepted the offer of M. Zaimes...