Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than a year later the Auvergnat, diligent in his attendance upon both M. Caillaux and M. Briand, was rewarded by the minor portfolio of Public Works in a Painleve Cabinet which starred Foreign Minister Briand and Finance Minister Caillaux. When Patron Briand shortly came in as Premier he took Protege Laval under his wing, gave him a course in Chamber intrigue as secretary general of the Prime Minister's office, graduated him prematurely in 1926 as Minister of Justice...
Thoroughly befuddled were such correspondents as supposed Andre Tardieu to be roughly ten times as big a man as Pierre Laval. One cabled: "The Tardieu Cabinet has been reformed with Laval as Premier." Others assumed that Protégé Laval would dance inevitably to Patron Briand's tunes. Scarcely anyone realized the tremendous will-to-rule of the Man of the Year. Perhaps Georges Mandel, long the most intimate colleague of "Tiger" Clemenceau. had a glimmering of what was coming. "The Laval Cabinet has nothing to fear," he wrote. "It will last if it gives the impression that it is working...
...Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon, famed champion of the Revolution and one of the most popular presidents Mexico has ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled name recalling both the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, and Father Miguel Hidalgo, a priest active in the struggle for independence from Spain) became the suburb Gustavo Madero. Assassinated in 1913, Gustavo Madero was a brother of famed Mexican President Francisco Madero, also assassinated...
Dirty magazines as such are not new. "French" love story magazines have long graced the back rows of newsstands, and there has been a steady market for smoking-car books like Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. But one rarely encounters a patron actually purchasing them, much less reading them on his way home from the office. The new pornography bids for -and has been getting-admittance to decent society along with the Saturday Evening Post and the evening paper. All are vaguely identified with Ballyhoo...
...California. The mining man (John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough put together but, if tested by an emotional seismograph like the "Lie Detector," its graph would be full of dead spots. Shot: Greta Nissen asking her patron to buy her an emerald bracelet...