Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bicycle Thief (De Sica; Mayer-Burstyn), an Italian-made film by Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) arrives in the U.S. heavy with prizes and praise collected in Europe. Rene Clair has called it "the best film for 30 years." It is a fine, sentimental tragedy, filled with bitter social comment and presented in the realistic style which the modern Italian moviemakers have made their trademark...
...history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals' René Mayer...
Middle-of-the-roader Mayer won a fairly comfortable Assembly ratification, but he also was unable to form a cabinet, largely because the Socialists resented the frustration of M. Moch. M. Auriol next wistfully beckoned to an eminent Popular Republican, Georges Bidault, first Foreign Minister of the Fourth Republic. M. Bidault would undoubtedly exert himself to the utmost, for of the three center parties the Popular Republicans have the sharpest fear of parliamentary dissolution and new elections (the Popular Republicans anticipate wholesale defections to the Gaullists). By a majority vote the deputies could bring about dissolution at any time...
...confused with doctrinaire Socialist Daniel Mayer...
This coalition had appeared to be in danger ever since the resignation of Premier Henri Queuille on October 5: the efforts successively of Jules Moch, Socialist, and Rene Mayer, Radical Socialist, to form acceptable governments had failed...