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...Lamoureux, reporter of the original Cartel bill, stormed: "If the Chamber goes on at this rate, the budget deficit will never be met by our scheme and we shall have to accept after all the Government scheme of a sales tax or tax on payments" (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante). Since the Chamber gave every sign of continuing to "go on" indefinitely, M. Lamoureux and the Socialist fiscal expert, M. Auriol finally walked out of the Chamber hurling shrill rebukes right and left...
...resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands. . . [to which] I am absolutely and unalterably opposed...
...Wrangle. Some 25 Deputies were delegated by their comrades to arise and propose over 100 amendments to the Cartel Finance Measure (TIME, Feb. 1, et ante), which was literally thrown to the Chamber by the disgusted Premier...
...unhampered by modesty, appeared as "a statuet vender," and held up to view a statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me?stiff like this...
...measure thus defended, signed and made operative was the much talked-of law for the control of expatriates (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.) which gives the Government authority to deprive Italian citizens in other countries of their citizenship and to confiscate such property as they may have left behind in Italy if they commit "acts injurious to Italian prestige...