Word: rapporteurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under Premier Blum officially was responsible for bogging down the State's finances in such a morass that the Blum Cabinet chose with relief to resign, namely Vincent Auriol. Today he is Minister of Justice in the new Chautemps Cabinet. Last week the Senate Finance Committee's rapporteur, Abel Gardey, flayed him in a long speech which the Senate liked so well it ordered his words posted up on public billboards all over France. Senator Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been such a promise-breaker that the point was finally reached...
After the secret Government session at which this decision was taken Count Coreth, the official rapporteur, announced with apostolic zeal: "The Austrian people could no longer endure the injury done the Habsburgs in 1919 when they were deprived of their citizenship and property. Dollfuss, from his place in Heaven, will surely be glad to know that the Austrian Government is canceling this unjust...
...secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered to us in the event of war with Germany...
While Irish Senators debated whether to put colleens below the age of consent into "distinctive dresses", Scotch solons of Glasgow's Diocesan Council were apprised of "terrible moral conditions in Scotland" by their rapporteur on vital statistics, Major A. R. Haverfield...
...French Chamber produced an international sensation, touched off screaming eight-column headlines such as RUSSIA OFFERS TROOPS TO FRANCE! Next day two-column heads began "France Denies . . ." but close observers noted that no actual denial was made of what Deputy Léon Archimbaud actually said. As Rapporteur of the Military Budget, M. Archimbaud is one of the five French civilians privileged to know the Army's secrets. His party is the Radical Socialist, largest in the Chamber. Deputies leaped to their feet with spontaneous cheers and War Minister General Maurin smiled grimly as Rapporteur Archimbaud reached the climax...