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Socialist leader, M. Leon Blum, whose party is the largest in the Chamber, was forced to pussyfoot. He came out in his newspaper Le Populaire thus: "We do not seek to exploit against Edouard Daladier the difficulties which he has created for himself. The hour is too grave for that. But it is necessary that he be warned, if he has not already been. For repeal of the social legislation or for a reversal of attitude toward the working class, let him not count on the Socialist Party...
...Syracuse, 74-year-old William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, famed Anti-Saloon Leaguer, heartily endorsed Senator William Edgar Borah's candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination but declared he would make no speeches for the Idaho Dry because: "The more I make, the wetter the country gets...
...driving last year, the total was below the 1928-31 average. That the nation definitely had its back turned on Prohibition sentiment was evident at the 28th annual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of America in St. Louis, at which nothing was new but the songs. William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson deplored the sale of 3.2% beer. Bishop James Cannon Jr. was named to head the League's revived National Legislative Committee. Francis Scott McBride was once more elected General Superintendent. There were no new faces, no new ideas. The League, predicting the return of national Prohibition, reaffirmed...
...Last January," he said, "France began to 'pussyfoot' in her relations with Italy, trying to smooth over former antagonism. Friendly advances were made, and semi-official approval was given to Italy's actions in Ethiopia. The underlying principle in this move was in keeping with her entire foreign policy: i.e. that an ally against Germany is worth the entire African continent...
...truck, the Metropolitan's new manager answered questions with simple charm. He had seen the papers in the train that morning, seen "Johnson" in the headlines and "honestly I couldn't realize that the stories were about me and not about the General or Jack or maybe Pussyfoot...