Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...francs and sent the budget back to the Senators again. Premier Daladier's is the job of forcing some sort of a compromise, and bringing the budget to final vote without losing his government, a business which Deputies, Senators and Cabinet all view with marked disfavor. Canny Socialist Deputies found a way of postponing the fateful day by attaching a rider to the budget giving the Government a monopoly on the importation and distribution of oil in France. Discussion of this, devising the machinery for taking over British and U. S. oil depots, may postpone the budget a month...
...vast surprise of Premier Manuel Azana and his Socialist coalition government, municipal elections in 2,500 Spanish towns and villages last month rolled up impressive Conservative and Royalist majorities. It was the first nationwide chance women have ever had to vote in Spain, the first nationwide chance Spaniards have had to express themselves on the Republic...
...soon as returns reached the Cortes, Conservative deputies were up in their seats yelling for power. Oppositionists gathered under the spokesmanship of a fiery Sevillian, Martinez Barrios. Premier Azana, fighting not only for the Socialist coalition but for the Republic, called on each of the opposition leaders personally to beg for a truce. In his peppery, nasal Andalusian voice Senor Barrios snapped...
...mounting Conservative opposition in the Cortes, the Socialist government has always stated that it would never resign until the law of religious congregations was passed, breaking the power of the Church, and a general program for the Republic established. Conservatives have kept the Church bill, passed piecemeal, from becoming law by festooning its articles with hundreds of amendments, talking for days. Premier Azana last fortnight drummed up the votes of every Cabinet Minister, even of deputies out on diplomatic missions, to jam through by one vote what Spanish deputies call the "Guillotine," a cloture rule which the government can invoke...
...York Herald Tribune last week headlined its report of a violent day in the Central Methodist Church, Brooklyn: METHODISTS RUB SOCIALIST TRACE OUT OF PLATFORM...