Word: cachin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Marcel Cachin, 88, hoary old man of the French Communist Party, director (since 1918) of its militant daily L'Humanité, dean (by age) of the French National Assembly; after long illness; in Paris...
...National Assembly's organizing sessions, the Communists politely withdrew their own candidate, aged hack Marcel Cachin, and made possible the speedy election of 71-year-old Socialist André Le Troquer as Assembly president (Speaker). Without their support, he had been a poor third in the voting...
...weeks ago the 11,000 citizens of the sober little town of Saint-Junien in central France got along all right with their Communist mayor. Then M. le Maire Martial Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street was thoroughly renamed...
...Maurice Thorez. 2. Jacques Duclos. 3. Frederic Joliot-Curie. 4. Leon Mauvais. 5. Marcel Cachin...
Aged deputies such as Marcel Cachin (80), women members, and less resilient types, including tubby Party Secretary Jacques Duclos-all of whom usually sit in the front rows-moved to the rear. Their places were taken by young, rugged backbenchers from among the party's 183 Deputies. A dozen of these charged up the red-carpeted steps toward the presidential tribune, plowed through a starchy cordon of dignified ushers in tailcoats. They installed young, good-looking Gerard Duprat on the rostrum. In the uproar none heard his speech, but when...