Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native unrest, M. Reynaud helped restore order when he was Minister of the Colonies (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931). Aged 58, he looks younger, annoys the earnest Left with his barbed Gallic wit, his habitually ironic mien. The Moderate Left acknowledged him the leading exponent of the moderate Right. Excepting Bonnet, no Premier cared to form a Cabinet without him, and because the Communists opposed him, it seemed that no Cabinet could be formed with...
...Socialist bedfellows to give France a "pause" from the New Deal measures inaugurated 19 months ago under France's first Socialist Premier, Leon Blum. Early this winter the "pause" was giving French businessmen a moderate return of confidence, and the treasury situation was improving under Finance Minister Georges Bonnet although the franc was weak. In the last few weeks, this recovery was halted by a new wave of strikes...
...hectic days which followed it became clear that even the most embittered French political leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...
With domestic problems forced relatively into the background under the able administration of finance minister Bonnet, France is bending every effort to induce Britain to join with her and Russia in a democratic bloc against the increasingly powerful central European dictatorships...
...Coach Manufacturing Co. for $12,000 each and at once put them into passenger service. Since then the New Jersey fleet has rolled up 1.000,000 carefully tabulated, experimental miles and the company's enthusiastic report of Diesel results put new bees in many a busman's bonnet...