Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JEAN TYLER LITTLEFIELD New Milford...
...news reached Paris on the eve of a full-dress debate on the Algerian situation in the Chamber of Deputies, and gave emotional force to the right's demand for stronger action in Algeria. Shouted Poujadist Bullyboy Jean-Marie Le Pen: "The problem in North Africa is military before everything else." But the news also strengthened the government's demand that French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste get special powers to handle the situation. With his opening words to the Assembly, Lacoste drew a crash of applause from everyone except the Communists : "Not a single Frenchman-I say this...
...Assembly had never seen a group like the 53 Poujadists elected. None had ever been in the Assembly before. They ranged from hard-boiled ex-paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen ("I suppose I am different. I like women") to voluble Andre Gayrard, director of the national confederation of butchers. Some had been Resistance fighters, other collaborators or members of the fascist Croix de Feu. Most were small grocers, bakers, mechanics, shopkeepers; and each of them obeyed Little Pierre. Poujade leased a small hotel near the Louvre to house them, held a three-day conference to teach them parliamentary procedure...
When Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen and his nine comrades got to the hall, they were besieged by a mob of 5,000, beaten with knuckledusters, bottles, lead pipes and crowbars. Le Pen broke up a chair to make a club, battled his way clear. Only after the police decided the Poujadists had learned their lesson did they intervene. "In Toulouse, as in all France, Fascism will not pass," orated the mayor, and led the crowd in the Marseillaise and the Internationale...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...