Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place of M. Briand's eighth Cabinet, which fell (TIME, March 15) when the Deputies voted down Finance Minister Doumer's "sales tax" clause in the long: disputed Finance Bill. (TIME, Jan. 4 et seq.) Under the circumstances, both President Doumergue and former Premier Herriot, leader of the potent Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties) decided that, in order to bolster up French prestige before the world, M. Briand must be instantly reinstalled as Premier and permitted to carry on his foreign policy before the League. M. Doumergue courteously went through the form of asking M. Herriot to form...
...week opened, the Deputies of the Left parties, composing former Premier Herriot's famed but unstable Cartel des Gauches, continued their efforts (amid great confusion) to get the Cartel finance bill voted item by item (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante...
...Government, with its own bill up its sleeve, stood grimly by and watched the Cartelist Deputies struggle to such negligible effect that M. Lamoureux, reporter of the Cartel measure, repeatedly threatened to resign in utter disgust...
...evaluate the labor of their wives and children as "a contribution to the state" and then deduct this nebulous "value" from their tax payments. The Deputies, not daring to offend their rural constituents, voted this measure 416 to 100. M. Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that the largest class of electors shall pay nothing!" As the tumult mounted to utter bedlam, the President of the Chamber...
Fortified by this support, the Premier strode to the Chamber and called for a vote of confidence, an act of daring which he has studiously avoided for weeks, fearing defeat. Suddenly confronted with the necessity for decisive action, the Cartel split once more. Only its extreme left wing, the Communists and Unified Socialists, stood out against the Government. The bulk of the Cartel supported M. Briand, who emerged victorious 326 to 183. Observers remained completely skeptical as to the significance of this apparent "victory." Throughout its checkered career the Cartel has been "split" and yet reunited itself times without number...