Word: cartel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wrangle. Some 25 Deputies were delegated by their comrades to arise and propose over 100 amendments to the Cartel Finance Measure (TIME, Feb. 1, et ante), which was literally thrown to the Chamber by the disgusted Premier...
Meanwhile the protagonists of the Cartel poured out a mass of figures designed to show that their measure would provide sufficient funds without enacting M. Doumer's hated "sales tax." M. Doumer parried these as best he could. The Deputies several times attested to the farcical quality of the debate by filing out into the lobbies in such numbers that some of them had to be called back to maintain a quorum...
...length Premier Briand rasped his throat angrily and glared up at famed Cartel finance expert Vincent Auriol: "On the Tribune with all the ingenuity of which you are capable you may be able to balance the budget with your scheme; and you may really have a scheme which might balance it. But there is not confidence behind you! All your plans are built on sand! That is why M. Doumer and I are seeking collaboration which will restore the necessary confidence and procure resources for the state...
Premier Briand made it evident last week that he considers the program of taxation put forward by his friend, Finance Minister Doumer, superior in every way to that formulated by the Finance Committee of the Chamber at the behest of M. Herriot, leader of Le Cartel des Gauches. At the same time he tacitly admitted that the Cartel has rallied and gained sufficient internal unity to make it almost impossible to force the Briand-Doumer measure through the Chamber. Confronted by this annoying impasse, the astute M. Briand decided to make the gesture of Pontius Pilate while at the same...
...next morning the Chamber assembled, after its recess, and amid thunderous applause re-elected M. Herriot its President. He received 300 votes out of a Chamber of 324. Nobody thought he could put his Cartel finance program through by any such majority; but M. Briand's prestige slumped. It was rumored that a Herriot-Caillaux Cabinet would replace the Briand-Doumer partnership, Doumer to vanish, Briand to return as Foreign Minister...