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...narrative turnaround usually provides the pleasure of surprise, the sense that poetic justice has foiled a malevolent act. Moore quickly cuts off such easy certainties. He shows the old man examining the possessions of his would-be murderer. They include a printed statement identifying the intended victim as "Pierre Brossard, former Chief of the Second Section of the Marseilles region of the Milice, condemned to death in absentia by French courts, in 1944 and again in 1946." The statement goes on to say that Brossard was charged with the massacre of 14 Jews on June 15, 1945. The document, which...
...true, of course, because the old man--who is indeed Brossard, although he has called himself Pouliot for many years--survives. But who, in 1989, still wants to punish him for his past by killing him? Brossard assumes that Jewish money is behind this attempt on his life. That belief, a measure of his reflexive anti-Semitism, will have fatal consequences...
...Commission itself. Louisiana's Representative Hale Boggs, one of Capitol Hill's most ardent freer-traders, asked the commission members, seated together below the Ways and Means Committee's walnut dais, whether they thought their escape-clause recommendations ought to be final. Commission Chairman Edgar B. Brossard mugwumped, but the other five members all said no. Commented Boggs: for Congress to pass the Simpson proposal in the teeth of the Tariff Commissioners' own testimony would be "utterly ridiculous...
...This Relief ... In Thousand Oaks, Calif., ailing E. E. Brossard, 71, agreed to submit to a rubdown from two professed faith healers who promised it would make him "feel relieved," found after the massagers left that they had relieved him of his wallet...
...creating by constituting these special commissions to deal with expert subjects and placing upon them men who are in no wise qualified as experts? Congress is rapidly delegating its power. We are surrendering the duties imposed upon us by the Constitution. ..." But when the vote came on Commissioner Edgar Brossard, accused of representing the beet sugar interests, Senator Borah was found paired for him, presumably because Idaho produces sugar beets. Senator Borah has said: "I am proudest of my 'Nay' votes...