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...finesse. Jumping into a car with two companions, he led the police on a wild chase to an empty house at the dead end of a road. There he turned on them with a machine gun and automatic rifles, shot his way out and away. A general alarm was broadcast...
...prophet would have said that the public's never-ceasing indignation at the corruption revealed by the "Stavisky affair" would be the major issue in any French election. But fortnight ago Papa Doumergue, in a drive to push through his proposed reforms of the French Constitution (TIME, Oct. 8), broadcast a new issue to the Republic's voters by bitterly attacking the Communist-Socialist United Front which has steadfastly opposed his plans. He begged support for his governmental policies and Edouard Herriot's own big bourgeois Radical-Socialist group...
Last week, after another ardent broadcast from the Premier, French citizens went to the polls, gave Doumergue a substantial, if not a smashing victory over his Communist-Socialist opponents. Believers in democracy breathed more freely...
...many thanks. . . . Breezed through today with nothing but my glove. . . . Tell everybody hello. Henry Ford will be my guest in St. Louis. . . . Cook a good meal for all of us. Sandwiches and everything." Sportswriters, who gave the Deans their nicknames, were proud of their erratic heroes when Dizzy Dean broadcast a speech of his own composition which might have been invented by the late Ring Lardner...
From the point of view of the Forgotten Man, last week's broadcast was perhaps less effective than its predecessors. When his Administration was young, the President directed his talk toward the future, and the things he was going to do. Now, with a full-fledged record behind him to invite debate, he found himself discussing, to a greater degree than heretofore, the past and its performances...