Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last French election gave a strong Chamber majority to the three parties of the Popular Front. Of these three the misnamed Radical Socialist Party of new Premier Camille Chautemps is actually moderate; the Socialist Party of M. Leon Blum is waveringly radical; and last week it was up to the Communist Party to decide whether to continue shoulder to shoulder with the other two or withdraw and thus break the Popular Front...
...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 for the duration of the week, and French Communist Leader Jean Duclos announced in the Chamber that his followers would vote for the new Popular Front Government. It won its decree measure 167 to 82 in the Senate and 380 to 228 in the Chamber-but in circumstances of excruciating monetary emergency...
...Deserters of the Franc." There were 3,636 tons of gold in the Bank of France when the Popular Front took office last year, and of these only 2,504 tons remained last week, dramatically revealed new Finance Minister Georges Bonnet...
...Paris the new Cabinet of the Popular Front threatened to abandon French neutrality in the Spanish conflict altogether by throwing open the French frontier for arms sales to Spanish Leftists, while keeping it closed to Spanish Rightists...
...situation in France was an obvious setup for strife. A Premier popular with large elements of the masses, Leon Blum had resigned fortnight ago under middle-class pressure exerted by the Senate. Here & there in Paris last week groups of workers drifted about raising such plaintive cries as "Blum to Power!" Nobody of importance in France paid the least attention at this stage of the game, least of all Communist Leader Maurice Thorez and Socialist Leader Blum himself. These two had decided upon a policy of lying low for the present, letting the more moderate new Premier of France, genial...