Word: cachin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since M. Loucheur's bill is admittedly subject to extensive amendment, if indeed Premier Briand can railroad it through the Chamber at all, everyone turned for relief from the terrific squabble which is brewing over the measure to M. Marcel Cachin, fire-eating Communist Deputy, who created a loudly welcomed diversion by denouncing the nation which he feels to be responsible for most of France's financial ills...
Observers opined that M. Cachin had coined into a few striking phrases exactly what is at the back of many a Frenchman's mind. That these thoughts will not be allowed to come forward injudiciously was proved by the fact that a majority of the Paris press refused to print the speech...
...Cachin, Communist, berated the Finance Minister because he and noc the Communists had been amnestied. "We ask of you," he pleaded, "not to forget those other unfortunates who await their liberation. With you in power, amnesty ought to be complete...
Notables elected: MM. Poincaré, Herriot, Briand, Painlevé; Communists Marty and Cachin, the former of whom was convicted of treason and later pardoned; ex-Minister of the Interior Malvy, once accused by ex-Premier Clemenceau of treason...
...relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight broke out. Chairs, lamps, windows and the platform were broken. Then numerous revolver shots. People fled in panic. Seventeen lay on the floor...