Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges but vilified radical Socialist Leader Chautemps to such an extent as to involve the prestige of the Party and of Boss Herriot. Plainly M. Tardieu was playing to disrupt the Cabinet and force a general election which he hoped to win. When M. Chautemps was finally called to confront M. Tardieu he accepted the challenge. "I take note," he declared, "that a member of the Cabinet has accepted responsibility for rupturing the political truce...
...does not regard Hitler as one of the beasts foretold in the Book of Revelation. And though he considers the Communists no better than they might be, he admits frankly that he would "as soon face the Ogpu on a charge of counterrevolution as I would confront a British-Indian court as an opponent of capitalism...
...problems which confront the coroner or medical examiner are of such a nature as to require that all the resources of modern science be brought to bear upon them. The examination should be made by a skilled pathologist who can call to his assistance other experts in allied fields, if necessary. This is possible only if the medical aspects of the old coroner's duties are put on a professional basis, as they have been under the Massachusetts system. Dr. Magrath, as one of the few men devoting all his time . . . and energy to this important work, has contributed much...
...attitudes are not shared by a powerful minority, it is doubtful whether the gains will be very rapid or very complete. It is not true that we shall be able to offer your generation of university men a wholly new deal when you emerge as graduates. You will confront the same old system with some few changes...
Periods of emergency, such as confront Doumergue, have vouchsafed a few Cabinets two, or once, three years. But the average Cabinet is a mere coalition, whose chief preoccupation is not to make legislative history, to drive through well-formulated policies, but to keep alive, by ingenious jockeying, for perhaps as long as nine months. The Premier has but a shadow of Roosevelt's or the Prime Minister's influence his ministers are his "personal rivals of yesterday and tomorrow," only waiting until a new alignment of the Deputies will give one of them his own nine months' trick...