Word: blum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week M. Leon Blum and his handful of Unified Socialist Deputies continued to flaunt their banner with the strange device "OBSTRUCTION!" M. Blum commands less than one-sixth of the votes in the Chamber; his cohorts represent less than one-tenth of the electorate of France. Yet it happens that, by supporting or refusing to support the bloc of Radicals and Radical-Socialists headed by M. Herriot, M. Blum has been able to obstruct and coerce the Cartel des Gauches,*upon which all the recent governments of France have been forced to rely for a majority...
...seven days were spent by M. Painlevé in endeavoring to parry the efforts of M. Leon Blum and the Socialists to force a definite expression of the "capital levy" (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) into the bill. Nominally the Painlevé Government is "supported" by the Radical-Socialists, the so-called cartel des Gauches, nominally headed by M. Herriot. Actually M. Blum split off with his Socialists a fortnight ago and had the Government at his mercy, because without his votes Premier Painlevé could not command a majority in the Chamber...
...these circumstances, M. Blum flatly demanded a direct levy on capital instead of a 14-year tax on "income." M. Painlevé dared not yield, because it was considered certain that the conservative Senate would kill any such measure even if it passed the Chamber. Still M. Blum insisted. He wanted a "capital levy" inserted "on principle," though the Senate should tear...
...remained to be seen at what cost. Unfortunately it shortly became apparent that the cost meant inserting the "capital levy" in the bill under the guise of a "mortgage-secured tax." For 24 consecutive hours M. Painlevé occupied himself with redrafting his measure, largely to suit M. Blum. Said the harassed Premier, "I yield. But only to Le Cartel...
...Mans. M. Paul Painleve, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and ATillionaire Deputy Leon Blum addressed a crowd, of 4,000. The meeting ended with a resolution expressing satisfaction with the Government's anticlerical policies...