Word: pre-war
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...until 1927 did M. Daladier begin to acquire political stature as a forceful (some thought irresponsible) leader of left-wing Radical Socialists. In 1928, as president of the Radical Socialist Party, backed by aging Senator Joseph Caillaux (one of the pre-War Radical Socialist leaders), Daladier broke up the Rightist Government of Raymond Poincairé by forcing its Radical Socialist ministers to resign. In 1929 he himself first tried to form a Government, but the old veteran statesman, Aristide Briand, prevented that. In 1933 for the first time he got the big job. He lasted nine months as Premier...
Horseshoe flings a gay revue of yesteryear, all fluffy ruffles and "cheesecake." Scenes of pre-War Rector's, of Delmonico's on New Year's Eve with Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell, a medley of old Ziegfeld Follies tune hits, tincture sex with nostalgia. Waddling souvenir of the past is onetime Glamor Girl Fritzi Scheff gurgling Kiss Me Again...
...life of the State. The 37,000 plants that were nationalized by the end of 1920-two-thirds of them employing fewer than 15 men each-gave way to 61,000 large-scale, State-owned, State-operated industries. The industrial machine that had stalled in 1922 was at its pre-War average in 1926. During the Five-Year Plans...
...leaven of change at the War's end left the peasants in possession of 95% of Russia's cultivated land. They held it while the harvests fell to 58% of their pre-War average, worked it in 25,000,000 homesteads until the drive to collectivize the farms began in 1929. The first Five-Year Plan called for a 20% collectivization in 1930. But when lower taxes, credit, use of farm machinery, did not move the kulaks, the more prosperous peasants, the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" was decreed on Jan. 5, 1930. Thereafter...
...early scenes, with their warm, not unhumorous account of a pre-War childhood, and their spanking pace, are fresh and alive. But despite a few touching scenes and a few impassioned ones the play weakens as it proceeds. Jerry never becomes more than a familiar symbol. The plot never slides out of the worn proletarian groove. The stagecraft-combining Living Newspaper technique with class-conscious expressionism-would once have seemed striking, today is dated...