Word: caillaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election made possible by the resignation from the Senate of his good old friend Dr. Gigon, Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was chosen Senator for his native Department of Sarthe by 641 votes out of a possible 739. This completes M. Caillaux's "return to politics." He becomes a member of that body which, in 1920, sentenced him to banishment for endangering France's alliances...
...triumph of the new Senator was not unclouded; for shortly after the election he was informed that Mme. Caillaux, slayer* of Editor Calmette in 1914, had been severely hurt (dislocated hip and broken kneecap) when her automobile skidded into a tree on the way from Mamers, where the Caillaux estates are situate, to Le Mans, capital of the Department of Sarthe. Her first words on recovering consciousness were : "Was Joseph elected?" Apprised of the result, she uttered a cry of joy and was whisked off to a hospital, where an operation was performed. Senator-elect Caillaux rushed to his wife...
France. Ambassador Daeschner intimated to Secretary Mellon that France would send a debt mission in September to settle the question of funding France's debt of $4,000,000,000. It was suggested that Finance Minister Caillaux might head the mission, but Paris doubted whether he could manage to leave the struggling French Parliament at that time...
...gold parity bonds which Parliament authorized Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux to issue (TIME, July 6) were eagerly bought up by the bond- buying public until the number of new bonds purchased exceeded the number of old bonds to be redeemed...
...budget was originally planned by Senator Etienne Clementel, Premier Herriot's Finance Minister (TIME, Oct. 13), but the Herriot Government fell (TIME, Apr. 20) before it was voted. When Joseph Caillaux stepped into Senator Clementel's shoes, he had to reconstruct the budget. The budget...