Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confidence in our leaders, the confidence that is the most elementary requirement for any army that wants to win." They never had reason to regain it-except in a few true officers. The other officers liked to say they loved France better than Hitler but Hitler better than Blum. The best officer Habe knew-a Colonel de Buissy, who had served in the Foreign Legion-was sent home. His superiors felt that he took the war much too seriously. Said one, contemptuously: "He wanted to resist at any cost...
Everybody's Friend. The Admiral has constantly and glibly shifted his politics to suit his career, always obliging the man in charge-whether Blum or Chautemps or Daladier-just as today he obliges Adolf Hitler. Whenever Governments changed, Darlan usually called in the newspapermen and asked them to forecast him as the next Minister of Marine. He is a great eater and drinker, and on the night France collapsed he luxuriated so heartily and publicly at Bordeaux's Chapon Fin that the next day a number of his brother officers, with an ethical fastidiousness almost Japanese, resigned their...
Impresario of the Forum of the Air is wispy, 37-year-old Theodore Granik, who looks like a younger version of Léon Blum. A lawyer by profession, Granik used to be assistant director of Manhattan's WGBS (now WINS), where he did everything from conducting Biblical readings to reporting prize fights. One of the ideas he cooked up for WGBS was a program known as Law for the Layman. When the station was sold in 1928, he transferred his show to WOR, decided to transform it into a forum after listening to Congressman Celler of New York...
John F. Ambrose '41, Ozone Park; Thomas E. Baker '43, Tonawanda; Nathan Belfer '41, Brooklyn; Howard C. Bennett, Jr. '42, Latham; Richard M. Bloch '43, Rochester; John M. Blum '43, New York; Edward L. Burwell '41, East Aurora; Joseph P. Downer '43, New York; William C. Dutton '43, Rochester; Henry Edelheit '42, Johnson City; David R.V. Golding '41, Brooklyn; Raymond C. Guth '43, Brooklyn; Robert R. Hackford '43, Gardenville; Howard G. Hageman '42, Albany; Peter J. Hearst '43, New York; James Holderbaum '42, Buffalo; Gabriel Jackson '42, Mount Vernon...
...week's end two Jews who had helped rule the land, onetime Premier Léon Blum and onetime Colonial and Interior Minister Georges Mandel, were haled before the judges of Riom as the "war guilt" trials began in earnest...