Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M. Queuille is a Radical Socialist (in the French spectrum, somewhat to the right of center). For more than a year he had shepherded a coalition cabinet of Radicals, Socialists, and Popular Republicans. He had frozen wages; but prices kept on oozing upward...
...last week the Queuille cabinet had agreed that the lowest-paid workers must have wage bonuses. M. Queuille assumed that the bonus tables would be worked out with himself as arbiter, but Socialist Labor Minister Daniel Mayer abruptly refused to accept this. Queuille had to resign...
President of the Republic Vincent Auriol, tired and ill, wearily conferred with party leaders, then asked Socialist Minister of the Interior Jules Moch to examine his prospects for forming a cabinet. After the Socialists had had their try, M. Auriol would be free to call on anyone he thought could set up and run a working coalition. He might even call, again, on Henri Queuille...
Trading with the Pigs. Frau Weimann, 40, reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that...
...esthetic side of marriage. "I've grown up," said she. "I used to think books were only good for doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...