Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay-at-home wife and his gadabout daughter José both present in the packed galleries of the Chamber of Deputies, pugnacious Son-of-a-Butcher Laval battled for votes of confidence in the major acts of his Government since last July (when the Chamber adjourned) and won triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval's series of victories produced predictions last week that his Government will outlast the present Chamber...
...issue of Reparations v. private debts will be thrashed out by committees of bankers soon to meet at Basle and Berlin (TIME, Nov. 30) and ultimately no doubt by a conference of statesmen. Meanwhile, with Aristide Briand, "The Master Parliamentarian of Europe," biding his time, Pierre Laval enjoyed his triumph and explained to the cheering Chamber his more subtle achievements while visiting President Hoover...
...Vagabond is going; for don't doctors work on diseased corpses? And all the poetry is not discuses even to such a hopeless romantic as the Vagabond. There is much that is good, and more that is interesting in this period. But to those souls who find the triumph of American Literature in this post war age lot the Vagabond remark with one of the late Victorians, "Fare well Romance, and all unseen, Romance brought...
...reforestation amendment was car ried by an ample majority over the Smith objections. Interpreters rushed forward to claim this result as a personal triumph for Governor Roosevelt over Mr. Smith. "Oh, get out!" joshed the Governor at this suggestion. Small though the refores tation issue was, however, it did serve to remind people that Mr. Smith had yet to endorse the Roosevelt candidacy. The best guess was that Mr. Smith was dissatisfied with Governor Roosevelt's Prohibition stand, even suspected the latter of playing both ends against the middle to win Wet and Dry favor. Mr. Smith has vowed that...
Mobsmen drove the police first from Sir Ronald's garage, poured gasoline on the six Government cars, burnt them with yells of triumph and great stench of rubber & paint. Next they stove in the locked door of Government house, smashed Sir Ronald's choice parlor ornaments, knifed his oil paintings, fouled his bedroom. Setting fire at last to Government House in five places, Cyprus' Greeks burnt it utterly to the ground, sang as it burned the National Anthem of the Greek Republic...