Word: splits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber vote on the decree of plenary powers was of extreme significance because the Popular Front coalition, on which the Daladier Cabinet is nominally based, split three ways. Its Communists voted "Non"; its Socialists abstained; its Radical Socialists voted "Oui." Thus Premier Daladier-opposed by the Reds and deserted by the Pinks-won only because the remainder of the Chamber, the Right, voted "Oui" with his Radical Socialists (who are moderates). He was considered to have emerged from the debate as head of a new coalition broadly Middle Class, with a touch of French Aristocracy...
...When Hellzapoppin (TIME, Oct. 3) opened in Manhattan, all critics agreed that it split their eardrums, few admitted that it split their sides. One of the few was Critic Walter Winchell. Winchell razzed his fellow critics, claimed that seven out of eight had also "laughed & laughed & laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested...
...gauze. Nervously he watched his teammates, beaten by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of a doubleheader, whack out 17 hits for a 10-to-3 victory and thereby clinch the National League pennant on the next to the last day of the season. In that split second between the final put-out and the first whoops of his teammates, grinning Gabby Hartnett might well have reviewed the storybook happenings of the past two months-since the day he suddenly replaced Charlie Grimm as manager...
...Roosevelt administration, which Sweezy sees as in effect a popular front government, with the workingman as its chief backer, is seriously concerned over the divided house of labor. If the fight runs into the 1940 campaign, the A. F. L. may force a split in the Democratic party by allying itself with conservative Democrats in opposition...
Spreyer will call signals and split the kicking assignment with Al Vander Eb, husky reserve blocking back. Another back who will see action is George Heiden. Line reserves who may play are Dick Row, guard; Jack McNeil, center, and Bill Parsons...