Word: dauphinate
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...backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last that the new Prime Minister is indeed a second Poincare, a strong and jealous guardian of the foreign rights and fiscal integrity...
...time to summon the man whom former Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré? greatest statesman of the right?has been grooming as his successor for two years past at least. All France knows the long, rumbling name; André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu. He has two nicknames, first Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), second L'Americain?for snappy, humorless, combative André Tardieu is supposed to be "the most American of Frenchmen...
...million French coal miners. Diving into the fray he managed in one week to win both operators and employes to his plan of settlement?which involved financial sacrifices by both. When the present cabinet crisis occurred with the fall of the government of Aristide Briand, the tenacious Dauphin was clinging to his Ministery of Interior (bestowed by Poincaré a year ago), a key post since the incumbent controls the local government and the police of France...
...preparing to sting again. In reality Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians?a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face of things his "republicans of good will" commanded no certain majority, last week, but Le Dauphin boldly announced that he would wait five days before facing the Chamber, and in that interval it was entirely possible that the deputies could be cajoled and dazzled into enthroning "the crown prince...
Admittedly the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" may find it necessary to delay his retirement, perhaps for months; but last week, as the Chamber and Senate convened, rumor insisted that M. Poincaré would shortly groom Le Dauphin for promotion by appearing with him in the Chamber and sponsoring a vast new project, which M. Tardieu has devised and which is called "The Program of Realization...