Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another keen disappointment to Leader Barkley and his Whip, old J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. So were North Carolina's Bob Reynolds and Minnesota's Shipstead. The latter said he voted in protest to a placard in WPA headquarters urging WPAsters to telegraph to Senators. "I'm tired of pressure," snorted Shipstead...
...Manton. Mr. Dewey reported that, after a year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide in Andrews' favor. > Accepting $50,000 in loans from Harry M. Warner (to whom $40,000 has been repaid) whose motion picture company won a patent case with Judge Manton presiding. > Receiving personally or for business enterprises...
...Paris, just a few hours later, Premier Daladier wound up in the Chamber of Deputies a long foreign policy debate which had hinged on the Spanish problem. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet had warned that a "question of force" might soon arise. M. Daladier said that events were "racing toward a climax," that the "hour of peril" was approaching. But the debate showed such a fatal division of opinion on exactly what constituted a peril that France seemed paralyzed...
...Right welcomed the Fascist intervention in Spain, believed that Socialism on the south was a greater danger than Fascism. They were the peace-at-any-price party. On the Left, ardent Socialists and Communists wanted intervention at any price. In the Centre, holding the balance of power, were M. Daladier's Radical Socialists, who subscribed, temporarily at least, to a peace-at-almost-any-price program...
...Right and Centre combined to give M. Daladier a 374-to-228 vote of confidence on his non-intervention policy. A vote on the Government's motion to "maintain the integrity of the French Empire and the security of its imperial routes" was unanimous - 609-to-0. It was on this question that M. Daladier became eloquent...