Word: cachin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frenchmen elected their first 100% Communist Senator last week in the droop-mustached, doctrinaire person of M. Marcel Cachin, editor of L'Humanité. Another freak feature of the poll, which left the Senate still an assembly of oldster moderates: Premier Laval was elected Senator twice over, has until Jan. 14 to decide which of two constituencies he will represent for the next nine years...
...Socialists gestured by throwing away 114 ballots on the obscure secretary of their party Paul Faure, scattered friends of former Premier Paul Painlevé (who announced that he did not choose to run at the last moment) gave him twelve votes, the Communists cast eight for Communist Leader Marcel Cachin (who lost his Chamber seat in the earlier election last week), and finally 59 members of the National Assembly dropped blank ballots into the ornate, Napoleonic urn. Cried President Lebrun of France, soon after his election: "In the most ambitious dreams of my childhood I never dared hope to attain...
...French Communist Party was organized by a group of left-wing Socialists under Marcel Cachin. White-tied Laval disliked Communism and was disgusted at the growing conservatism of the other old-line Socialists. He broke away from the party altogether and has remained a complete independent. What political allegiance he owes is to that wily old Pacifist Aristide Briand. Before his Premiership, he flashed twice in the news. As Minister of Labor in the second Tardieu Government he put through the Social Insurance Act, France's employer's liability law. It was Pierre Laval, too, who authorized...
...forward and voted, cheered by the whole Right-Centre, Right and a sprinkling of others. Tediously the vote went on & on. When it was over, 45 minutes more were taken to count it, check and double-check. The count: Paul Doumer 442 Aristide Briand 401 Jean Hennessy 15 Marcel Cachin 10 Gaston Doumergue 7 Paul Painlevé 2 Scattered 20 Blank 4 Total 901 Thus on the first ballot nobody got a majority of over half the votes, the necessary minimum to elect. But M. Doumer had failed to win by only seven votes. M. Briand by 48. The result...