Word: doumer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Briand, It might now be possible to slip these votes as ready political coin into the pocket of a more popular financier. There were those who said last week that the astute Briand winked as he summoned his old friend, the "safe and sane," self-made Senator Paul Doumer, to be his Finance Minister...
Observers recalled that Senator Doumer's recent failure to form a Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 7) was cleverly exploited by M. Briand to make his own triumph the greater when he succeeded. One Frenchman said to another, "What if it were all a put up job: a deal whereby Doumer, who has the Senate solidly behind him, should succeed the brilliant but unpopular Loucheur, and slide necessary tax measures of a less drastic nature through the Chamber...
Premier Briand, whatever his preparatory duplicities, pledged his entire Cabinet to stand or fall by M. Doumer's projected fiscal program, in an address to 150 Deputies: "This time I will not change my Minister of Finance. If you defeat Doumer you will not hear from me again. I will withdraw from politics and you may then settle your account with the country...
Next President Doumergue, presumably at the suggestion of M. Briand, asked the latter's friend, Senator Paul Doumer, to form a cabinet. Senator Doumer has had a long and honorable political career* and has not been greatly embroiled in the recent political struggle. He could come forward without stirring the animosities which spring up about every man recently in power. He might succeed in conciliating Blum. He failed...
Finally, M. Briand stepped again into the limelight, while many an observer declared that he had deftly made use of both Doumer and Herriot to split the cartel, When President Doumergue called upon him once more to try to form a cabinet he was ready. After two days of dickering he got together a government, representing a slight swing to the Right from that of M. Painlevé, which it is hoped can command a majority without the Blum faction...