Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There were about 30 people at an informal meeting which was held in my dining room at York House about 5 or 5:30 on the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 21. I called the meeting in order to discuss the funeral arrangements, and those present represented all the necessary authorities who would be concerned...
Sergeants-at-arms in the Chamber of Deputies had to keep separating members who loudly threatened to thrash each other. On three occasions the Speaker, portly M. Edouard Herriot, was unable to get order by ringing his bell, had to suspend the session by the classic French gesture of clapping on his silk hat and waddling out. Twenty Communist Deputies rushed in a fist-shaking, hoarse-shouting phalanx toward the centre of the Chamber, and only concerted efforts by all the sergeants-at-arms checked their assault. In the Senate it was the duty of former Premier Blum, since...
Minister of Justice Auriol, when he found such jibes were to be posted all over France, went purple with fury on the Government bench, threatened to resign and made such a scene that finally Senator Gardey himself persuaded the Senate to cancel its order for posting up his speech...
...French Premier Chau-temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must be able to tell French Communists that he was successfully staving off this British gesture toward Franco. In this appeal Chautemps & Bonnet-who was on the telephone to London almost hourly seeking support for the franc- succeeded...
...because he had killed his dearly beloved New York American (TIME, July 5).* He felt wiser because he had at last taken the advice of his business associates who urged him to drop or consolidate losing properties. He was sounder because he was putting his financial house in order all along the line and had just concluded a constructive deal in Rochester and Albany...