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...hold a balance of power in the French Chamber, are supposed to be anti-Laval, but as individuals enough of them favor him to have made possible his Cabinet's dance on the tightrope of Power all these months. Last week the anti-Laval cabal forced a showdown within the party, demanding that hereafter Radical Socialists vote as a unit in the Chamber. At this showdown it was first decided by a party majority of one to do as the cabal demanded. Then the decision was reversed by a party majority of one. By this last of innumerable flukes...
...Lorenzo husbands were too olive-oily for her taste; she wanted gamier game. Enter big society man, complete with roadster and fatuous expression; exit Irene. Meantime Husband Ernie had been taken up by the society man's wife, who had personality and an itch for Art. When the showdown came, with a double divorce and remarriage, Ernie and Irene found the new deal was not all they had hoped. The Lorenzo bunch, awed by the spectacle of so much high villainy, relapsed contentedly into their lower brackets...
Extraordinary was the call because many a Californian is currently worrying himself into sick jitters over the Tom Mooney trial, the "Red Network," the San Francisco Industrial Association's secret dossiers on radicals, above all over what was first called the September and now the October "showdown on the waterfront''-the threatened recrudescence of last year's longshoremen's strike (TIME, June...
...Austria. No sooner had Dr. Schacht spoken this week than Nazi local satraps began blustering against "reactionaries"?i. e. Schacht. All parts of his speech embarrassing to Nazis were omitted from German newsorgans by order of Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels. Sensing the showdown which cannot be put off forever, Germany waited nervously for Adolf Hitler, who has been on a secretive vacation in Bavaria for nearly two months, to show up in Berlin, his fateful advent being daily expected...
...executives to file expense vouchers-a startling innovation-and marched through the payroll with a big blue pencil. In the film industry, which is notorious for its nepotism, such Hertzian tactics were bound to stir up trouble. And having made enemies right & left, Mr. Hertz finally called for a showdown on his right to hire & fire. He lost. So horsy John Hertz retired to his polo and his racing. Early in 1933, unable to pay its bond interest and loaded to its Plimsoll line with bank loans, Paramount finally foundered...