Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been immensely weakened by execution of its ablest leaders-and such in French General Staff headquarters was the opinion last week-then Paris must think somewhat of conciliating Berlin, and it would have been suicidal to yield to Communist demands that Premier Blum bestir himself to help the Spanish Popular Front. Last week for the first time since the World War a high German Staff Officer, General Ludwig Beck, was welcomed in Paris, conferred with General Marie Gustave Gamelin of the French General Staff, reputedly shared with him the German Secret Service's dossier on what is actually happening...
...Senate would not want to upset a Cabinet so strongly backed in the Chamber. Instead of showing spirit or spunk, the Premier made a plaintive, hesitating speech, failed to make the issue one of confidence, and was rebuffed by the Senate 168-to-96. In the Chamber aroused Popular Front Deputies waited for their Blum to rush back to them and make a great public issue of "full powers." Instead, he closeted himself at 1 a. m. with assorted politicians, finally announced at 3 a. m- that his Cabinet had resigned, begged France to remain "perfectly quiet...
Although Socialist Blum had resigned this did not destroy the political majority of the Popular Front. Mindful of this fact President Lebrun asked another Popular Front statesman before dawn to try to form a Cabinet, picking for this effort a Radical Socialist who had twice before been Premier, Camille Chautemps. Names notwithstanding, the Radical Socialists are more conservative than the Socialists in France, and thus the selection of Middle-of-the-Roader Chautemps meant a shift toward the Centre and away from the Communists. To form a Cabinet on this basis was ticklish work this week. Premier-Designate Chautemps...
...days when popular ballads sang of little tots tugging their papas away from the saloon and home to their sick and starving families, Illinois passed its Dram-Shops Act. Any one injured or deprived of his means of support as a result of another person's intoxication could apply for damages not only from the grog seller, but from the grog seller's landlord. Repealed during Prohibition, Illinois' Dram-Shops Act of 1874 was revived in the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and last week it was invoked by a Chicago lady who claimed her Christmas...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson and a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did not relinquish his interest in Japanese affairs with his Ambassadorship. In 1935 he went back to Japan as head of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, whose report on Japanese industry acted powerfully to dispel the popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter between U. S. and Japanese cotton textile...