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Fortified by this support, the Premier strode to the Chamber and called for a vote of confidence, an act of daring which he has studiously avoided for weeks, fearing defeat. Suddenly confronted with the necessity for decisive action, the Cartel split once more. Only its extreme left wing, the Communists and Unified Socialists, stood out against the Government. The bulk of the Cartel supported M. Briand, who emerged victorious 326 to 183. Observers remained completely skeptical as to the significance of this apparent "victory." Throughout its checkered career the Cartel has been "split" and yet reunited itself times without number...
...removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused "new blood" into the board-William Kissam Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and others. But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel. This element feared lest Distinction and Bon Ton, like old pieces of furniture left behind by the moving men, should grow dusty...
...promulgated under a resolution requested by a Republican president, introduced by a Democratic senator, sponsored by a non-partisan majority, and opposed by an irregular Republican minority. Does the act but fulfill the old Republican promise of 1920? Does it vindicate the leadership of Calvin Coolidge? Or does it split his party irreparably? Does it end an old battle or begin...
...against the party's supporting any Ministry whatever unless a majority of the Ministers should be Socialists. This was taken to mean that M. Herriot could not depend on the Socialists to support a Cartel Ministry with himself as Premier. The Cartel was declared split and probably impotent to oust M. Briand...
Geographers noted that what was once the Empire of the Romanovs and what is now the U. S. S. R. are indeed two quite different areas. In the West the Baltic countries from Poland to Finland have split off; in the Near East the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) have been created and linked with the other Socialist Soviet Republics which signed the treaty of union at Moscow...