Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Useless to ask questions of the man who drew up the budget! He, debonair M. Francois Pietri. Minister of the Budget in the Laval Cabinet, not only forgot-believe it or not-his handiwork completely but rushed to Premier Herriot's aid in the Chamber debate fortnight ago, delivered an elegant harangue asking his fellow Deputies to "vote this payment for the honor of France...
Though Premier Edouard Herriot fought a brilliant Chamber battle, urging payment on grounds of expediency & honor, he revealed his personal feelings in these words which drew loudest Chamber cheers: "It was the intervention of President Hoover which destroyed everything and reopened everything! The Hoover Moratorium cost France far more than the sum we are discussing now. It cost us our title to Reparations...
Chainstore methods applied to bombing and revolution gave President Agustin P. Justo a warm, uneasy night & day last week. About 2:30 a. m. a small pineapple bomb exploded in the Buenos Aires suburb of Flores. drew police attention to a house from which several men fled wildly in all directions...
...This drew cheers and a burst of hand-claps-ordinarily banned in the Assembly. Even louder applause rang out when Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, said. "Is the League aware that this is a great test case which will establish precedents for future disputes? . . . Any policy of compromise as regards principles will lead to failure and ultimate death for the League...
With Hauptmann Goring at the gavel, the Deputies proceeded to elect their three Vice-Speakers, were told that Socialist Paul Loebe and People's Partyman Otto Hugo had tied for the third Vice-Speakership. To break this tie the two men drew lots from a bowl. Just at that moment the official tellers announced that a recount showed there had been no tie, awarded the third Vice-Speakership to astonished Dr. Loebe who had lost the draw...