Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form a cabinet. The President could call upon M. Herriot, "leader" of the cartel of which M. Blum was the tail that wagged the dog. If M. Herriot found that even he could not form a cabinet, because he could do nothing with Blum, then perhaps the cartel would split; and the deputies thus released from this stubborn bloc could be reformed by M. Briand, together with deputies from the Right, into a coalition that could command a majority without Blum...
Tomorrow morning, the Conference will assemble at Phillips Brooks House, its rendezvous after the first meeting, at 9 o'clock. Following a speech by George Collins on the existing international organizations, the delegates will be split into small groups for further discussion on various phases of the question under consideration...
Then came 1922. There was a split in the regular Republican machine, and Mr. Pinchot-who would believe it?-was elected Governor. He gave Pennsylvania a budget system, trimmed the sails of expenditure and set out to put the State on a sound financial basis. He reorganized the State Government and cut the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. He also went out to enforce prohibition...
...Leon Blum and the Socialists to force a definite expression of the "capital levy" (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) into the bill. Nominally the Painlevé Government is "supported" by the Radical-Socialists, the so-called cartel des Gauches, nominally headed by M. Herriot. Actually M. Blum split off with his Socialists a fortnight ago and had the Government at his mercy, because without his votes Premier Painlevé could not command a majority in the Chamber...
After a two years lapse, in 1919, games were again scheduled, but in the past war period it has been with increasing difficulty that the University has held its own. In the last six meetings, the two elevens have split even, each having a string of three successive wins to its credit. Saturday's meeting thus becomes the rubber match for the post war series...