Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some time after 3 a.m., Bidault presented his government to President of the Republic Vincent Auriol. To tired, ailing M. Auriol, most of the faces were familiar. Socialist Jules Moch, who had tried unsuccessfully to form the new government, was again the Minister of Interior. The M.R.P.'s able, courageous Robert Schuman, an ex-Premier himself, had been retained as Foreign Minister. The Radicals' Henri Queuille, Premier of the previous government, was kept on as Vice Premier. The Peasant Party's Maurice Petsche remained as Minister of Finance. In all, ten members of the Queuille government...
...coalitions of devious and delicate compromise will be possible. An increasing number of deputies want to dissolve the Chamber and hold new elections. Yet that would do little good unless there were a change in France's basic electoral law. The present law, providing for an especially dizzy form of proportional representation, encourages small parties and makes practically impossible any clear-cut majority in the Chamber...
Although the crowd was for Pancho, Kramer won the first set, 6-4, and only play at full-power form saved Gonzales the second one, 6-3. From then on, Big Jake bossed the situation like an instructor giving lessons to a prize pupil. He poured...
...Juan, a veteran in Hell, is seen to have profited by his earthly satiation with the life of the senses, and he is prepared to visit Heaven to achieve self-fulfilment. In analysis, it may be hard to see how this idea could ever be interesting in dramatic form. But the sparkling prose of the philosophic discussions is delightful for its wit, its audacity and its insight...
...number of steps towards casing the country's educational crisis" were posed by Professor Harris in last Sunday's New York Time Magazine. Harris, a backer of Federal aid to education, wants government and state help in the form of scholarships, fellowships, and capital outlays, and he doesn't fear any resulting threats to academic freedom. "British experience shows us that aid is possible without control of college educational policies," he explains...