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...Bienvenu [Welcome], M. le Président...
Specifically marked for the application of La Terreur Feminine, last week, were MM. Les Senateurs Delahaye, Dominique Cuminal, Bienvenu-Martin, Massabuau and Schrameck, "qui sont," read the feminist proclamation, "absolument opposes au principe du vote feminin...
...President of that august body. His poll was 30 votes larger than it was when he was elected last July. This was taken as a sign that the Senate was becoming pro-Nationalist and therefore antiGovernment, which augurs ill for Premier Herriot M. de Selves received 167 votes. M. Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist, was the opposing candidate with 116 votes...
...candidate for the Presidency, ex-Premier Paul Painlevé, defeated; le Sénateur Gaston Doumergue elected. His candidate for the Presidency of the Senate, le Sénateur Bienvenu-Martin, defeated; le Sénateur Justin de Selves, Poincaréist, elected. His candidate for the Presidency of the Army Committee of the Chamber of Deputies defeated; le Député Maginot, Minister of War under Poincare, elected. His policy of withdrawing the French Embassy to the Vatican (TiME, June 16) and that of granting amnesty to political exiles and prisoners were met with strong opposition...
There is an indescribable pleasure in being appreciated, and we are always a bienvenu at home. Nobody there knows that we are a humbug, or, if anybody does, he never says so. But, after all, the pleasure of a trip home is not wholly unalloyed...