Word: steeg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last week the highly satisfactory price of wheat in France caused the fall of M. Theodore Steeg's "Cabinet of Concentration, Entente and Conciliation...
...this miasma of scandal the Steeg cabinet withered, declined and died by the close vote...
That amiable greybeard Prime Minister Theodore Steeg lost three members from his already enfeebled ministry last week,* but guaranteed the life of his government for at least three weeks by adjourning Parliament until the second Tuesday in January, the fateful 13th. The political spot-light shifted from the Chamber of Deputies to its parliamentary commission investigating the famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg...
...Minister of Pensions, Under Secretary of Agriculture and Under Secretary of the Interior, all members of the Right, resigned when they heard that Steeg had received Socialist support for his tottering Cabinet by agreeing to a disarmament program...
Paradoxically, M. Steeg and his Big Five encountered extreme opposition last week from all sections of the Paris press except papers definitely of their own persuasion. Usually any man with the mandate of Prime Minister can count, no matter what his views, on the support of Le Temps, but last week even this most "official" organ turned against the Government. On every hand editors predicted that the Steeg cabinet would surely fall when it faced the Chamber of Deputies this week. Three politicians who had accepted posts under M. Steeg as under- secretaries were scared out, resigned, explaining lamely that...