Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of State, and back with him were 21 erstwhile Blum Cabinet members, including Yvon Delbos who continues as Foreign Minister. The one Socialist thrown to the Senate wolves was Blum's droopy-eyed Finance Minister Vincent Auriol who made such an utter mess of devaluation, but even shifty Auriol was included in the Chautemps Cabinet, as Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps had to reach all the way to Washington last week and pluck home...
Only four of the more than 50 pavilions were ready-the German, Russian, Belgian, Italian-and there was much caustic criticism because the President had had to make his tour of the Exposition by boat to avoid "holes in the ground and the mess of construction." Jean Frenchman, however, had little cause to grumble at the delay. Because the turnstiles could not be erected in time, everybody was let in free...
According to Berlin: the attack was totally unprovoked. It occurred while the crew was at mess in the unarmored forecastle. No anti-aircraft guns were fired. Only two bombs struck the ship. One, on her heavily armored midships, caused no damage. The other, exploding in the forecastle, killed 23 men, wounded...
Without explaining why the Deutschland had been in Iviza, Germany harped on the fact that the Deutschland'?, dead and wounded had not been at battle stations during the bombing, but at mess, obviously unprepared...
...biggest of which are the Paris-Lyons- Mediterranee, Paris-Orleans, Est, Midi and Nord-have a joint capital of only 8,000,000,000 francs (about $352,000,000) but already owe the State 25,000,000,000 (about $1,100,000,000). Only way to clean up this mess, he said, was for the Government to take over every mile of track in the country and 80% of the railroads' stock, try to put the roads on a paying basis by increasing freight rates...