Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris' historic Ile St. Louis in a sumptuous old house crammed with exquisite bibelots and first editions lives millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Although intellectually cultivated, refined and suave, M. Blum affects a shaggy and haphazard air. He delights to rush among the Paris rabble and deliver mixed Socialist-Communist harangues. He annoys...
...Blum! Your name is like the sound of bullets entering a traitor's breast. Blum! Blum! Blum!" Last week the peculiar detestation Leon Blum is capable of arousing nearly cost him his life and sent France careening around a sharp, dangerous political curve. In a car driven by Socialist Deputy Georges Monnet and with Mme Monnet at his side, Socialist Blum edged too close to a Royalist funeral procession. The militant mourners were young, cane-swinging stalwarts of the Action Franchise, supporters of the restoration as King of France of Monseigneur le Due de Guise, an exile in Belgium...
...Spain's long-heralded general election for a new Cortes (Parliament) last week, voters' choices were three. The Left parties, united by the suppression of the October 1934 Socialist Revolution (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), offered "Revolution," meaning a proletarian dictatorship and nationalization of land & banks. The Right parties, counter-united under Catholic Leader Jose Maria Gil Robles, offered "Anti-Revolution," meaning, to the women, suppression of divorce; to the churchmen, support of the Catholic Church in Spain; to the Monarchists, the Monarchy. Finally Premier Manuel Portela Valladares' Centrist Government offered "Neutrality," qualified by political alliance with...
...gold coins impressed neutral observers as peculiar. For some years one has been able to get gold at the Bank of France only if prepared to purchase it in bars worth about $14,200 each. Before the Chamber of Deputies last week went the new Cabinet of millionaire Radical Socialist Premier Albert Sarraut. His Foreign Minister is that same moose-tall, fair-haired Pierre Etienne Flandin who as Premier appointed Jean Samson Tannery to be Governor of the Bank of France. Communists and Socialists, elated at the formation of a Left Centre Cabinet in succession to the Centre Cabinet...
...kind of news stories that will help him in his Harlem district. As a friend of the working man he called for a Congressional investigation and witnesses. Quickly formed in Manhattan was a National Gauley Bridge Committee to which such notables as Professor Haven Emerson of Columbia University, Socialist Norman Thomas and Drug Manufacturer William Jay Schieffelin subscribed. They paid expenses to Washington of a few Gauley Bridge residents to testify before Congressman Marcantonio's Committee, which by last week had heard the following evidence...