Word: blum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds of fashionable music and unaware of the curfew, Lucien is grabbed from behind by a guard and taken for questioning as a spy. Inside, an unlikely group of outcasts--a playboy aristocrat, a cycling champion past his prime, a colonial black, a police inspector dismissed by Leon Blum's Popular Front before the war--reigns over the hotel in sybaritic decadence. Downstairs is all dancing and champagne; only once in a while does anyone go upstairs for "business"--torture and interrogation...
...political spectrum. Giscard won possession of the Elysée Palace for the next seven years with a bare 50.8% majority, or some 423,000 votes.* A small swing to the left might easily have made Mitterrand the winner, and given France its first left-wing government since Leon Blum's Popular Front of the 1930s...
...campaign laid bare deep divisions within French society-divisions that would surely trouble whomever the voters choose to succeed the late Georges Pompidou. A victory by Mitterrand would bring to power the first left-wing coalition government in France since Leon Blum's Popular Front in the turbulent late 1930s. A Mitterrand regime would also include the first Communists in any major Western European Cabinet since the cold war began-a fact that might legitimize the idea of Communists sharing power in other Western European countries, notably Italy...
...members bring a range of political opinion to their meetings, ranging from Nickerson, who is a liberal Republican, to Calkins and Blum, who are active Democrats. Burr and Slichter are independents, while Bok and Putnam lean to the Democrats' side. Collectively, the Corporation is the most liberal it has ever been, a far cry from the days when Republican registration was an unstated requirement...
...group reaches all its decisions by consensus. The smallness of the group permits "marginal differences of opinion to remain marginal," according to Blum...