Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first light of a cloudless dawn last week France's first Socialist-dominated Chamber of Deputies adjourned with an all-time record of 65 "economically revolutionary" bills passed in ten weeks. Cried weary, wispy Premier Leon Blum to the Deputies: "The greatest social movement since the foundation of the Third Republic has been accomplished without any shedding of blood but by persuasion only...
...founders, that, since the day has come to rejuvenate this old house, it appears impossible to invite you to participate in this restoration." Inexpressibly shocking to French business was the prompt appointment by the Government to the new board of Regents of goateed, rabble-rousing Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux, who last week flew to Spain's "Red" Government Capital of Madrid. To Paris businessmen this suggested that M. Jouhaux had gone to arrange a loan by the Bank of France to Spanish foes of Capitalism...
...flying them to Seville, whence they jounced by bus to Cadiz, boarded the U. S. cruiser Oklahoma and were taken to British Gibraltar, mostly dead broke. French tourists in Granada were not permitted to leave by officers of the Revolution, keenly suspicious that the French "Popular Front" Government of Leon Blum is helping the Spanish "Popular Front" Cabinet in Madrid...
...Leon Trotsky lives exiled near Oslo, Norway. Lenin and Trotsky were the chief builders of the Soviet State, control of which after Lenin's death was seized from Trotsky by Stalin. Their epic quarrel: Trotsky insisted Russia must foment Communist revolutions abroad in order to survive as a Soviet country; Stalin favored husbanding Russian energies at home until the U. S. S. R. had enough surplus strength to promote "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
Other Deputies took up the chorus until new Premier Leon Blum's Cabinet finally had to make rebuttal. To Deputy Gaston-Gérard's specific, constructive proposal that a cheapened 'tourist franc' be introduced, the Cabinet returned a flat "non" merely promised to spend a little more "pour encourager le tourisme...