Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the Atlantic, the Paris Exposition, stuck in the mud of Labor discontent, was not going anything like so well (TIME, May 3). Originally scheduled to open May 1, it is currently trying to be ready for visitors May 25. Last week Premier Blum was gloomily sticking to that date, despite the pessimism of his opponents, when news broke that cast him into still deeper gloom...
This week on the eve of the new parliamentary session the furrows in Premier Blum's brow grew deeper. So apprehensive was the Paris Bourse that Bank of France stocks dropped 585 francs ($26), nearly one-tenth of their value. Meantime 30,000 small storekeepers assembled angrily in the capital to denounce Premier Blum's two-days-a-week closing order...
...loungers and boulevard philosophers were less absorbed in Premier Blum's political problems than in a treatise which he wrote 25 years ago, called Le Mariage, but which only lately crashed into the limelight. By last week these amateur reflections on the subject nearest to every Frenchman's heart had run to a 20th edition. The book advises young men "to sow plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life...
With everybody in Paris smirking and chattering about his amorous outpourings, Premier Blum blushed crimson one night last week, moaned hopelessly: "I wish people would forget...
Civilian Rule. The smell of spring survived the stench of corpses in Madrid last week. A few almond trees bravely retained their bloom as the Rightists continued to flail Madrid day after day with unremitting shellfire. And from Valencia, where Leftist Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was still seeking refuge, an order was sent to Madrid dissolving Madrid's Supreme Defense Junta, headed by formidable General José Miaja who for almost six months has been the Capital's all-powerful boss. Because Madrid had been shelled for 13 consecutive days Premier Largo Caballero felt that General Miaja...