Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defended Verdun." When the Popular Front won the elections of 1936, Edouard Daladier became War Minister, under Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came to power: Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier. Socialists and Communists gave him day-by-day support, but it was easy to see that the Popular Front's days...
...Father Curran raised his and to a new high, thundered against "a ranking city official" who had greeted the Soviet Pavilion with "fulsome unAmerican praise." Asked whom he meant, Father Curran rasped: "The audience knew whom I meant." A few listeners recalled that he had once before taken a crack at New York City's Mayor LaGuardia two years ago in a speech on New York's "unwashed liberals...
...sleek, mid-wing job. Most expensive of Martin's war babies, the first one cost $882,000 before its tests were completed. Last January, while Douglas was under scrutiny in the Senate for showing its new attack bomber to France before the U. S. had a crack at it-by and with the consent of President Roosevelt-Martin calmly went ahead with his order of 1675 for France...
...crack Lowell golf team, which won its sixth straight victory yesterday from Eliot by default, will meet the Yale champions, Berkeley's Mitres, on the Elis' home course. Jack Crane, most consistent player on the Bellboy squad, will head the Crimson delegation in their invasion. Shooting in the vicinity of 80 in every match, Crane will play in the number one position...
...Cornell Walt Sickles, the lad who set the Crimson down with five measley hits in the first tilt between the two teams, will be a tough nut to crack. And the Ithacans have started to hit behind him. Shortstop George Polzer leads the attack with a mark above 400, while Charley Bowen and Bill Mogk are close on his heels...