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...program of Léon Blum are so "abominable" that they can think of no other in France equally abominable. Nevertheless the "popular Front" of the Radical Socialists, the Socialists and the Communists last week finally steamrollered through the Chamber of Deputies the Franco-Soviet Pact by a triumphant majority of 353-to-164. Among his bandages Jew Léon Blum chuckled as this harsh stroke immediately moved Nazi Adolf Hitler to make the most fawning and friendly gestures he has ever made toward France...
...National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross, pressagent for the NLRB. Edward P. Rowan, Chief of the Treasury's Painting & Sculpture Section, is hanging up his coat. For the Attorney General's office Artist Leon Kroll did a mural sketch of "Triumphant Justice," which observers last week thought they could identify as liberal Justice Harlan F. Stone...
...background of the lurid light cast by the festive campfires of the triumphant bonuseers lurk menancing shadows. The immediate and pressing question is how to finance the two and one-half billion dollar payment. It has occured to some few souls that the money must be raised by taxation, either deferred or immediate, but such persons are not to be found in Congress or the lobbying headquarters of the American Legion. Even the reputed magician in charge of the Treasury has openly expressed skepticism as to the means and probable facility of raising the money...
...friends had finished their trick bill was to rubber stamp it. The bill went smashing through with a vote of 74-to-16 Only four Senators up for re-election in 1936 voted against it: Glass of Virginia, Conzens of Michigan, Hastings of Delaware, Keyes of New Hampshire. Triumphant were veterans' chiefs who calculated that the House would approve the bill, send it to the President before this week ends...
...heavyweight bout, which would decide the match, came to a sudden and triumphant end for the Crimson. The referee. Allie Wolfe of Philadelphia, called a technical knockout for Spencer Howe when Fred Cramer, also a Southern Conference title holder, who has succumbed only to the fists of Slade Cutter, Navy heavyweight, was badly but near his left eye in the first round...