Word: cabineted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offing buzzed Hornet Daladier. The moment the peace apostle consented to enter the vegetarian's cabinet, the hornet stung...
Hectic midnight was the hour of betrayal, if such it was. Earlier in the evening M. Daladier had set out to tell President Gaston Doumergue of his inability to form a cabinet of the "left." The Socialist party had just refused their support, and without them he considered the game was up. En route to the presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would...
...this new line M. Daladier worked furiously until midnight, then saw in earliest morning papers that M. Briand had told the famed Havas Agency he would support not a "moderate centre" cabinet but one of "republican union." In plain English this meant insisting that Radical Socialist Daladier seek support for his cabinet further to the right than his own party would stand for. Frenzied, he rushed to the telephone and rang M. Briand's number, rang it again and again, drew his own conclusions when he got no answer? such at least was his story. In a welter of rage...
Clémentel Interlude. Since the cabinet crisis has now lasted over a week, flustered President Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue hastily cast about for a man who might be able to form a cabinet of "republican union," chose that elderly vegetarian M. Le Senateur Étienne Clémentel,* the distinguished President Fondateur of the International Chamber of Commerce...
Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded...