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...French Prime Minister is the one by which he picks exactly the right split-second to adjourn Parliament before Mm. Les Députés upset his Cabinet. Always as a session draws to its close French legislators become hyperexcitable, super-suspicious, jealous of their power, ready to shout the Government out of office on any pretext. All last week the Chamber was bedlam...
...Grafter!", shouted some one on the Right, while Socialist Leader Leon Blum was shouting from the Tribune. "Make your charge openly!," he bellowed, and everyone seemed to shout at once. Rising from his seat near the centre of the chamber M. Edouard Herriot, onetime Prime Minister, everlasting Mayor of Lyons, finally stilled this particular tempest by assuring the Chamber that he (Radical-Socialist) had known M. Blum for 40 years and knew that the Socialist leader is not a "grafter...
...President and the House on World War pension legislation (see p. 17) and cash for the National Law Enforcement Commission. With the House marking time for the Senate to catch up, Congressmen packed into the Senate chamber to watch the final riotous scenes there, to hear hostile Senators shout and roar their political hatred of the Hoover Administration...
...Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink who for four years past has been saying farewell to her public. Her vaudeville debut last week accompanied the showing of Mamba, scenario of which was written by her son Ferdinand. Her recipe for endurance : "I know how to sing now. I don't shout as I did when I was young." Mme Schumann-Heink's 69th birthday speech: "Some day, of course, I shall die. Out on the stage I would sing the last note of a song. I wouldn't want to die before the audience and create a disturbance...
Commented Dr. Alexander Copeland Millar, editor of the Arkansas Methodist and, like Bishop Cannon a Hoover Democrat : "We cannot go back on the greatest Prohibition leader in the world, for if we did, the devils in Hell would shout with lee and the angels in Heaven would weep...