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...only hard-boiled member of elderly and intellectual Premier Leon Blum's present Cabinet was Minister of Interior Roger Salengro, and paradoxically it was he who last week committed suicide...
...boiled Minister Salengro while he hammered back so vigorously that in punishment for Gringoire's attacks and others the great Havas news agency was recently forced by the Premier to drop one of its leading directors (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, after the suicide of the Minister of Interior, officials of the Ministry of Interior, which controls the police and communications systems, broke the French law insuring non-censorship of cables and for several hours denied correspondents in France the use of dot-dash communication, forcing them to telephone the facts abroad...
...jails, which in France should be in his favor.* Enemies kept screaming that Salengro must be investigated by a Court of Honor but in the Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago, after a fisticuffing, shin-kicking fight, the Deputies voted 427-10-103 complete vindication of the Minister of Interior who was then & there embraced by Premier Blum. Both wept, apparently for joy. Why then did hard-boiled and triumphantly-vindicated Roger Salengro commit suicide last week...
...Salengro lived alone at Lille, Mayor of that big city (pop. 200,000) and popular for his energetic efforts among the poor. His housekeeper had cooked his dinner, left it in the warm oven, and had gone home as usual. His chauffeur went home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend the Premier...
...Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; Ambassador to Russia, William Allen White. To various local dignitaries went the posts of Ambassador to the U. S., Ambassador to Ethiopia, Governor General of the Philippines...