Word: moribundity
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Pierre Poujade, the election's only real victor, has already predicted that the moribund new assembly "will not last." Even if he is right, no inquest into its demise will be able to pin the ultimate blame on him. The feud between Mendes-France and Edgar Faure split the Radical Socialist Party, rent the Assembly's alliance of moderates, and paved the way for the extremists' victory. As a result, any constructive legislation by the new assembly will require that the center groups, already almost hopelessly divided among themselves, vote nearly unanimously together. The French battle has gone...
...prepare for this year's big fight, Fred Hall stirred up moribund elements of the Republican Old Guard, combined them with insurgent Young Republicans, and made himself the leader of a faction described by the Wichita Beacon as a "collection of defeated candidates, disgruntled public employees and power-hungry persons who have been shunted aside in past weeks, months or years." Most prominent of Hall's backers: Alfred M. Landon, who was shunted off onto a siding in the 1936 presidential election...
...print, Hopkinson promptly protested to the Sketch, received a letter of apology from Gunn in which he said that he had intended to run the review without Hopkinson's byline, but it was mistakenly left on. Hopkinson took his complaint to Britain's year-old but already moribund Press Council, a group of 25 newsmen and publishers who are supposed to act as "watchdogs" of the British press. Last week, for the first time, the watchdog stood up and really...
...French are constitutionally incapable of balancing their budget . . . The French government is moribund...
...head the moribund College of Commerce, Stoddard imported a Keynesian economist named Howard Bowen who was soon accused of firing a professor for being too "conservative." The Chicago Tribune picked up the cry, and Stoddard was forced to let Bowen...