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...nation of Centrists, a moderate land of thrifty folk, this shift was sufficiently dramati¶ Everyone agreed that it blasted and destroyed the power of the Right Centre coalition in the Chamber of Deputies whose leader is Premier André Tardieu, called "L'Americain" because of his go-gettishness. Looking for the next Premier of France, the nation shifted its attention from Paris-on-the-Seine 250 miles due south to Lyon-on-the-Rhone. Lyon presented a terrific sight...
...Senate, blaming on M. Herriot's policies the so-called "collapse of the franc," voted his Cabinet out of office. The Chamber at once elected him its Speaker. In the following year he resigned as Speaker to form his disastrous two-day Cabinet and a shift to the Right Centre in the elections of 1928 was said to have "killed Herriot" politically. He was even forced to resign as Leader of his party, lie low. He regained the leadership only last year and has since been forging steadily back to power...
When the two University crews line up at the start tomorrow, the Tech outfit will have had almost an entire week of practice together since the shift made early last week by Coach William Haines. Although no definite announcement was made last night as to the seating of Harvard's first crew, it is expected that R. H. Hallowell '33 will be filling the seat of Captain T. E. Armstrong '32 at number 4, while the latter will be rowing the same position in the Jayvee boat...
...announced he would let a vacancy on the board go unfilled. Complaining that the board did not "function cohesively'' in administrative matters, the President purposed, with the legislative consent of Congress, to transfer its activities to the Department of Commerce over which he exercises supreme power. The shift, he contended, would save money, promote efficiency, help the Merchant Marine...
...House of Representatives has passed a bill taxing the gate receipts of all exhibitions of sport ten percent. College football, the only amateur sport rich in revenue, is expected to yield about two and a half million dollars. Nothing could demonstrate better how subtly the burden of taxes may shift, defeating the intentions of the legislators and the theory underlying...