Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marked is the personal respect of French Socialists bigwigs for Socialist Leon Blum. As a moneyed young man Leader Blum for years helped impecunious comrades keep their landladies at bay. Yet last week militant pinks set themselves to make the Socialist Party Congress at Marseille hot for Vice Premier Blum. His recent resignation "without a fight" as Premier (TIME, June 28, et seq.) and his orders to Socialists to support the new Cabinet of moderate Premier Camille Chautemps they flung last week in Leader Blum's face with fury, charged him with betrayal. "Everything should be done...
...exuding confidence and saying, "Just wait and see." After some hours of Congress wrangling, Socialist Blum rose in the late afternoon, introduced himself with a sentence which set every cartoonist in France to scratching: "I shall not speak as God or as Caesar, but as for my stewardship as Premier for 13 months, I do not think that the record...
...back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve such old favorite Socialist "reforms" as nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber. "Remember how this was done," cried Orator 'Slum, "in the case of the House of Lords in England...
...proved popular talk for to Socialist rank-&-filers the Senate is anathema because of the way it is elected. Deputies to the Chamber are chosen all at once by universal male suffrage, either at four-year intervals or whenever the President ascertains that no Premier can find a majority, and orders the Chamber dissolved. Senators are elected for nine-year terms, an election taking place every three years for one-third of the Senate. They are chosen not by universal suffrage but by electoral colleges whose members are Deputies or elected delegates from communes and departments. Senatorial candidates must...
Catalonian anarchists supporting the Leftist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin asked leave to stage anti-Fascist rallies and parades on the first birthday of Spain's civil war last week, but were sternly repressed. Catalonia's President Luis Companys cared to risk no street riots among his Communist, Anarchist, Socialist and Republican supporters, and anyhow Leftist Spain was grimly straining every resource in its first large offensive...