Word: blum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John C. Brown, Concord, New Hampshire; Charles T. Lawrence, Manchester, New Hampshire; Henry E. Messier, Taunton; Norman S. Simmons, Mount Vernon, New York; Lester H. Sablow, Mount Vernon, New York; William E. Wood, Legan, Utah; Stephen E. Thorne, Jr., Schuylerville, New York; Vincent P. Marran, Jr., Holyoke; Samuel I. Blum, New Haven, Connecticut; Richard D. Garrett, Glens Falls, New York; Donald W. Parsons, Scituate; Harold K. Terry Bahama, North Carolina...
Died. Thérése Pereyra Blum, wife (second) of France's onetime Premier Leon Blum, who once said of her: "Madame Blum is my best adviser, my best friend, my best beloved, and my finest chauffeur"; after a gall bladder operation; in Paris...
...that point, Vice Premier Leon Blum's Socialists asked time out to consider whether they would stick with the Communists or with the moderate, misnamed Radical Socialist Party of Chautemps, the second largest party in the Chamber. Out of the Socialist huddle came Blum to hand Chautemps his own resignation and that of the other eight Socialist ministers. This automatically wrecked the Cabinet. The hour was 4:30 a. m. Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. "Blum will be the next...
...hectic days which followed it became clear that even the most embittered French political leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...
...last election (TIME, June 15, 1936), is unlikely to stand up much longer. Logical next move would be dissolution of the Chamber with an immediate election. First party to come out with what could easily become an electioneering broadside were the Communists: "Formation of the Cabinet which M. Blum had envisioned was rendered impossible by the demands of Paul Reynaud who wanted to impose the presence in the Cabinet of elements linked with terror and Fascism...