Word: pires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold was again in flight from France in the nearest thing to panic since last spring. Three successive uppings by the Bank of France of its discount rate failed to halt the flow. Instead it quickened. The radical parties opposing M. Laval redoubled what they call their politique du pire-tactics "to make everything worse & worse." As the Chamber of Deputies met after a five-month recess last week both the Socialist Populaire and the Radical Socialist L'Oeuvre predicted an immediate, bloody "March on Paris" by French Fascists. "The plan of attack includes assaults upon the Chamber...