Word: doumer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first was the Briand-Doumer plan, featuring the enactment of legislation which would levy much heavier "indirect taxes...
...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...
...Rumors were shelved, as the Finance Committee of the Chamber played a concrete trick on M. Briand by voting to reject the keynote of the Briand-Doumer measure, the increased "indirect taxation." This was regarded as a body blow to Briand, since in order to overrule the Committee he would have to go before the Chamber on this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee...
...Finance Minister Doumer proposes to meet all the budget charges, the immediate needs of the Treasury, repayment of Bank of France advances and the creation of a sinking fund for amortization of the floating debt by the following measures...
Thus Premier Briand succeeded in getting all his Ministers, and to a lesser extent the political groups of which they are members, committed to a definite Briand-Doumer Finance Program. Optimistic observers inclined to the opinion that he can weld and strengthen these commitments into a majority which can resist the Cartel's efforts to dictate Government policy. Political ravens, of course, croaked that the Cabinet's pledge of unanimity was writ in water...