Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blum for Premier? To Léon Blum there was never any question but that the Franco-Soviet Pact must be ratified-even with the dangers of touching off hair-trigger Nazis, incurring possible rupture of the Locarno Pact, and entering the bear-like embrace of Bolshevik Russians. His Socialist spirit is fixed with religious fanaticism; he hates Nazis as they can only be hated by one who is a Socialist, a Frenchman and a Jew; and he hopes with something like passionate prophecy that French voters next April will for the first time give French Socialism a clear mandate...
...late General-Dictator George Kondylis (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week King George, normally a sedate and cautious citizen, was driving in nervous haste down an Athens street when a street car suddenly lumbered around a corner directly into his path. Having been tuned by his new life to hair-trigger reflexes, the King swung hard on the wheel, narrowly saved himself and only slightly nicked the Greek street car. Three days later he avoided damaging either himself or his automobile when he collided with a taxicab...
...while, but, seen it develops that she has a most insolent pup of a jilted flance; a hatchet-faced companion; a stern, outraged mother whose dignity is regal; an oily detective who shadows her every step; and, back in Arizona, a cattle-king father with a fidgetty trigger finger...
...political heritage Huey Long left behind was a set of election laws which gave absolute control to the party in power of every ballot box and polling place in Louisiana. While nobody had ever tested it, it looked as if all the "ins" had to do was pull the trigger and hang on forever. Long before last week's primary it had been decided who among the Long survivors were going to get the benefit of this election device. In view of faithful stooge service, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January 1937 to serve...
Last week 102 out of 124 factory employes were found to be suffering from skin troubles, especially acne. Governor George Howard Earle's Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore, filed a complaint. Quicker on the trigger was Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's potent Secretary of Health. Last week she rushed a squad of public health inspectors to York. Surgeon General Cummings,* hearing of the trouble, promised Federal help to Governor Earle who telegraphed C. F. Obermeier, manager of the factory: "I appeal to your sense of public spirit and your regard for public health...