Word: dauphine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buying men, the importance of the single personal command, the importance of time." He was the biggest big executive of his day, a man who spent his life bringing order on a large scale out of colossal chaos. Louis' father, Charles VII, had been that weak-kneed Dauphin whom Joan of Arc crowned. Charles turned out better as a king than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions against his father) came to the throne, at 38, he found France still disunited, Paris disloyal, the English threatening, and such powerful...
...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...
Breathless minutes passed while the tellers counted. Two hundred fifty-six against Tardieu, but 327 for him?"Vive le Dauphin!" "Vive le Roi!" "Vive VAmericain...
...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...