Word: caillaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Onetime (1911-12) Premier of France Joseph Caillaux was reported to have discussed last week the subject of alimony awards by French courts in somewhat boastful fashion with a group of U. S. lawyers, including famed Dudley Field Malone...
...give my divorced wife 10,000 francs a month [$400]," said M. Caillaux, "I am probably the largest alimony payer in France. Yet, consider. What I give is but a present to her. The Court only ordered a fraction of that amount...
...Caillaux. (She shot him dead because of his paper's political attacks on her husband...
...everyone knows, former French Premiers Briand, Caillaux, Painlevé and Herriot, pacifists all, have consistently supported all International Democratic Peace Conferences...
...along with the principle of important economies." Continuing, M. Poincaré mentioned the debts of France to the U. S. and Britain equivocally, but in such terms as to leave no doubt at the time that he would not attempt to secure ratification for either the Mellon-Berenger or Caillaux-Churchill debt pact until the Chamber reassembles from its imminent summer recess.* Finally he demanded and secured, for the first time in French history, the passage of a "five minute rule" against filibustering. "Gagged." During the ensuing debate on a motion of confidence several Communist Deputies attempted to shout past...