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...hours M. Tardieu's scathing attack went on. He produced little or no evidence to support his 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...
...Jules J. Leventhal, producers). There must be few maids-of-all-work who so assiduously pursue the good deeds that occupy bright-haired, charming Sadie (Queenie Smith) in Mr. Hobart's play. Sadie firmly dissuades the young master from his juvenile excesses, even going so far as to disrupt his romance with a painted lady from the wrong part of town. Sadie herself has a hankering for him but, a conscientious domestic, she decides to stay in her own class...
...climax of last night's unusually passive Liberal Club meeting, resulting in the election of a conservative as President, brings to an harmonious conclusion the strife between radicals and conservatives which has threatened to disrupt the activities of the organization. Straddling main issues and pledging himself to "any liberal policies the Club sees fit," the new President has set forth a program which promises to favor compromise with the harmony that results from such action...
...relationship alluded to in the signature, the student in question, and with him his roommate, made all possible arrangements for repelling the visitor. In fact, a regular cordon of loyal Dunster House men patrolled up and down past the window for the better part of the night--enough to disrupt the best laid plans of the most desperate killer. The intended victim has not since slept in the bedroom, while his roommate has done so, only after erecting across the window a magnificent barricade consisting of his bureau stuffed with old clothes to deaden the force of the expected bullets...
Permit me, further, to point out that the attempt to disrupt our meeting was carried out with the connivance of University authorities. A rival meeting, unauthorized by the Regent, was given full freedom by the Yard police. Harvard's name was blackened by students in Nazi uniform, shouting for war. The University demands that radical clubs conform to all rules, but turns the other way when its embryonic Fascists violate regulations. The Austrian government which gave the Heimwehr free rein, the German government which took no step against the Hitlerites, practised an analogous "democratic" policy...