Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen and King respectively from Dominion bigwigs, hovered over them while they signed the Golden Book at City Hall, led them on a breathless four-hour tour of the town, the Mayor taking bows right and left before throngs, some of whom paid as high as $30 for window seats for the show...
...Veterans kept their places stiffly for a moment, and then, chanting "We want the King!", surged toward the Royal couple. Guards moved to interfere but the King waved them away. A greying veteran grasped the King's hand with his right, the Queen's with his left. Others slapped the King on the back, wrung the Queen's free hand. "You don't need any bullet-proof glass here, Your Majesty!" they cried. "God bless you, you're among friends." A blind veteran who last looked on the world at Vimy Ridge, a war nurse...
...They all curtsied wrong-ways (right foot behind the left). Then Cecile departed from protocol. She rushed over and kissed the Queen. In a trice Elizabeth, lonesome despite the previous day's telephone call to her own two daughters, was on her knees in a flurry of kissing Quintuplets. Forgotten man for the moment was the King, in his Navy uniform, but Yvonne fixed that, running to him and taking his hand. Soon they were in brisk French conversation over the King's Navy buttons...
...years Paul Reynaud's Jeremiah-like prophecies of doom have earned him hatred from the Left and suspicion from the Right. In 1923 he pleaded for an understanding with Germany and opposed the French occupation of the Ruhr. An antiCommunist, he has long urged closer trade relations with Russia. Last September, before he switched from the Ministry of Justice to Finance, he almost broke up the Daladier Cabinet by his opposition to Appeasement...
When he became Finance Minister, the Daladier Government was at the height of its unpopularity with the Left, and smart Rightist Paul Reynaud had nothing to lose by promoting drastic measures for which the Premier would be chiefly blamed. He outlined a "threeyear plan" for return to "a liberal-capitalist economy" by stimulating private industry. The 40-hour week, darling of former Premier Blum's Popular Front, was abolished. The ordinary budget (exclusive of emergency arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being...