Search Details

Word: auriolism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Henri Queuille (Radical), 67, outgoing Premier, first to be asked by President Auriol to form a new government, refused, pleading ill health. ¶ Maurice Petsche (Independent), 55, able Minister of Finance in the retiring cabinet, gave up after one week. ¶ Robert Schuman (M.R.P.), 65, ex-Foreign Minister, refused. ¶ Rene Mayer (Radical), 56, ex-Minister of Justice, took a week to put a program together, failed to get the required confidence vote from the Assembly. ¶ Georges Bidault (M.R.P.), 51, ex-Premier, gave up after one day. ¶ Paul Reynaud (Independent), 72, Premier at the time of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Revolving Door | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...Paris one night last week, President Vincent Auriol of France sat down to a banquet of boeuf bouquetière in honor of a special group of guests: 41 French schoolboys who had some tales to tell. A few months before, each boy had set out on a solitary journey of thousands of miles with about $45 for the whole trip. For these winners of France's oddest scholarships, dinner with M. Auriol was just one in a long series of adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholarships for Adventure | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...committee announced a list of the most amiable Parisians, as chosen in a poll. Among the winners: a cab driver, a policeman, a salesgirl, a dress model and smiling President Vincent Auriol himself. Perhaps the most notable of all the prizewinners was vast, maternal Mme. Denise Muairon, 52, an imposing pillar of Parisian lovability. Mme. Muairon, the concierge at Numero 19 Rue Daru, belongs to a profession that is usually rated about as amiable as a barbed-wire fence. Unlike her colleagues, who snarl at one and all indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Beautiful People | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Shortly after the polls closed, Petainists learned they had won at least a victory of sorts. President Auriol, timing the announcement so that it would have no effect on the election, let it be known that he had commuted Pétain's life sentence to "permanent confinement" in a hospital; the 95-year-old prisoner, again & again reported near death in recent weeks, will leave the Ile d'Yeu, off Brittany, for the mainland as soon as he can be moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Elections | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...Jules Vincent Auriol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next