Word: doumer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representatives of the Powers assembled at Geneva (see THE LEAGUE) literally marked time early in the week until a Government should be formed in France to take the 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...
...legislative obstruction and partisan intrigue. They forced the resignation of the Briand Cabinet. They left France without a Government at the very moment when she needed all her prestige in the extraordinary session of the League at Geneva. (See LEAGUE.) They repudiated both Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer, who have labored since the first of the year to evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have...
...Locarno, the political horizon was deemed so clear that President Herriot of the Chamber departed on a visit to Lyons, of which city he is Mayor. The President of the Republic announced his intention of leaving Paris for a few days to open the Lyons Spring Fair. Finance Minister Doumer cabled to London and proposed to resume the Franco-British debt negotiations. An almost ominous optimism prevailed...
...Doumergue, Herriot, Doumer, Briand?what office did each of these Frenchmen hold before the fall of the Briand Government last week...
After a week of drastic emendation the estimated yield of the measure had been increased from 1,600,000,000 francs to 4,985,000,000?still at least one billion short of Government requirements. As expected, the increase was obtained by grafting on the bill Finance Minister Doumer's hated "indirect taxes" (TIME, Feb. 1 et ante) although the Chamber has been refusing for weeks to down this bitter dose. As the week ended, the Senate completed its salvage work and sent the bill back to the Chamber...