Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeremy Belknap Prize of $50, for the best French composition written by a first year student in the College, to Leon N. Satenstein...
...grounds that Frenchmen during the past month voted not for Communists, not for Socialists, but for the Popular Front, wise old Leon Blum last week told France over & over that when his Socialists take over the Government next month they will keep Capitalism. "Our task," said the next Premier, "is to extract from this social regime whatever it may still hold of justice and well being...
...Socialist Union 28. making a total of 362. But in addition to about half a dozen deputies who never cooperate with anybody, there will be in this apparent majority about 50 Radical Socialists, headed by Edouard Herriot, who cannot stomach the Popular Front's liberal program. Last week Leon Blum gave his best efforts to flirting with these all-important 50 votes. He had already got the Communists' promise to support, but not to join, his Government. The Radical Socialist machine had agreed to join the Government. There was still paunchy, pipe-smoking M. Herriot to be reckoned...
First move to reassure Herriot was to snub the Communists' plan for "Popular Front committees" in every village and town to be shaped eventually into Communist Soviets. Then, speaking before the American Club of Paris, tactful Leon Blum came out for Herriot's two pet schemes: friendship with Germany and payment of the War debt...
...Next day Leon Blum gave out, against all precedent, a list of men he would like to have in his Cabinet. The list...