Word: blum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed for prophecies of gloom and war. He interviewed Dictator Benito Mussolini month ago and that modern Caesar, instead of growling fresh warning to the world, suggested dovelike that President Roosevelt should arrange an arms limitation conference. Last week Mr. Simms reported that he had seen Premier Leon Blum in Paris. Gazing upon the trees and lawns of Matignon Palace he had heard the gospel of peace preached once more. Europe, declared the French Premier, is on the verge of catastrophe because everywhere arms are being piled up. Premier Blum's solution: let every interested power "make public their...
...startling suggestion; it had been endorsed, if not effected, by every Disarmament Conference since the Treaty of Versailles. And everyone knows that Europe's credit, especially France's, is already badly strained by Rearmament. But a certain freshness of point and purpose was lent to Premier Blum's remarks by echoes from the conference of the International Labor Office, meeting at Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever be content to stand...
French Delegate Léon Jouhaux struck the same note. To Premier Blum the voice of goatee-waggling Léon Jouhaux, epicure, onetime longshoreman, is even more a master's voice than is John L. Lewis' to Franklin Roosevelt. Léon Jouhaux bosses not half but all of France's organized labor front, key force in the Popular Front whose votes keep Premier Blum in power. Roared Léon Jouhaux at Geneva: "You cannot on one hand prepare for war and on the other develop social justice...
...gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity" in France-was out to make just such big news...
...worker should not receive as alms what is his right!" Under the bill, which faces strong opposition in the more conservative Senate, workers caught soliciting or accepting tips would be penalized. The money would be made up to them, and more, in regular wages obtained under the workers' Blum-given collective bargaining contracts. The cost would be passed on to the public by 15% or 20% price increases at restaurants, cafes, cinemas...