Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only hard-boiled member of elderly and intellectual Premier Leon Blum's present Cabinet was Minister of Interior Roger Salengro, and paradoxically it was he who last week committed suicide...
...Communist newsorgans of having been, during the War, one of those hard-boiled women who made easier the lot of soldiers, and in her grief at this accusation Mme Salengro died of heart disease. The Communists, having joined with the Socialists to make possible the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Blum, later turned from foes of Socialist Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever since last August, the weekly Gringoire and other Paris organs of the Right have been hammering at hard-boiled Minister Salengro while he hammered back so vigorously that in punishment for Gringoire...
...favor.* Enemies kept screaming that Salengro must be investigated by a Court of Honor but in the Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago, after a fisticuffing, shin-kicking fight, the Deputies voted 427-10-103 complete vindication of the Minister of Interior who was then & there embraced by Premier Blum. Both wept, apparently for joy. Why then did hard-boiled and triumphantly-vindicated Roger Salengro commit suicide last week...
...home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend the Premier...
...great excitement and with tears streaming down their faces, Premier Leon Blum and Brother Henri Salengro had meanwhile arrived at the dead Mayor's home. Lille reporters found them each with a letter in his hand, gesticulating and distraught. The Press was not permitted to examine either letter but was asked to take down both as read off by M. Blum and M. Salengro, as follows...