Word: dormoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later election of one-third of the French Senate quietly took place with such minor gains and losses of the various parties that neutral observers figured the uncertain French parliamentary balance had simply been maintained. Outstanding was the personal triumph of Socialist Marx Dormoy, a protégé of Léon ("New Deal") Blum, who won his Senate seat in a smashing victory this week over Rightist Marcel Regnier, a protégé of Pierre ("Hoare-Laval Deal") Laval...
...French Republic today the Minister of the Interior, commanding the police and charged with maintaining public order, has the beard of a bushy Bolshevik and the name Rene Marx Dormoy. The beard is of Socialist Dormoy's own choosing but, while M. Dormoy says that he stands for "militant Marxism," he regrets that his Socialist father went so far as to tag him "Marx" after Karl Marx. Communism as today conceived in Russia is, according to the Minister of the Interior, "a despicable compromise with the principles of The Revolution." Himself no compromiser, Bachelor Dormoy once had half...
...deft summary supplemented with wise comment, suddenly crossed their fingers and transmitted verbatim the statement presently issued by the Minister of the Interior. The editors of the New York Times were among those who affirmed that "perplexing questions are not answered by the data available." Data supplied by Marx Dormoy...
Laugh it off? Although Marx Dormoy had used a most discreet tone, his stated revelations were just about the most alarming which an official of the French Republic could make with any semblance of discretion. Significantly the French people last week gave no sign of having been alarmed. "The man in the street," correspondents soon cabled, "seems inclined to laugh the whole thing...
Bearded French Minister of Interior Marx Dormoy had double details of steel-helmeted, rifle-equipped Gardes Mobiles posted at the entrances to key Cabinet ministries, including his own. Their orders: "After 9 p. m. shoot to kill anyone who, after being challenged twice, attempts to enter without showing his special pass or giving the password." Under these elaborate precautions nobody was shot...