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...occupying the Ruhr, only one policy can be expected-direct, courageous action along "Capitalistic" lines. As he ascended the Tribune all the Communist Deputies and most of the Socialists leaped to their feet, stamping, screaming, hurling oaths and an occasional book, shoe, inkstand. . . . For almost five minutes absolute pandemonium reigned. From the Tribune M. Poincaré looked down with a sneer only partially masked by his beard. He, ever fearless, did not sneer rashly. His compact figure stood symbol for the might of his "Sacred Union Cabinet" (TIME, Aug. 2), uniting all parties but the extreme Left groups. M. Poincar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sacred Union | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Colonel Lane-Fox (after 40 minutes of pandemonium, during which several Laborites took off their shoes and threatened to hurl them at him): "I withdraw any remarks which may be deemed offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: One Hour More | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Patriots Convicted | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...smartly. Green and white robed Meharis swooped in billowy formation, borne by swift camels. Savaris and Spahis wearing the bright colored burnoose curbed their desert steeds upon the cobblestones of Rome. Sixty thousand Fascist children marched with heads thrown back amid a surcharged silence more impressive than the wildest pandemonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rome's Birthday | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Suddenly all eyes returned to M. Malvy. He seemed to totter and to be feebly protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand's Week | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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