Word: doumer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chargedwith uttering exclamations of joy when he heard of the assassination of President Paul Doumer, one Comrade Hautefeuille, a Communist street vendor, was sentenced in Paris last week to one year's imprisonment...
...Government announced that May 6, 1933 (first anniversary of the assassination), a new French postage stamp will be issued bearing Paul Doumer's portrait...
...Shipbuilders who are putting together for the French Line what they claim will be the largest, fastest liner in the world announced last week, "She will be launched in October 1932 and probably christened the Paul Doumer...
Deputy Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists who won most seats in the new Chamber of Deputies directly after President Doumer's death, remained coy to all correspondents last week, hinted that he may not try to become Premier when the Chamber reconvenes June 1, may prefer to become a second Aristide Briand, holding the Foreign Ministry and supporting as Premier his good friend Senator Paul Painlevé, a Republican Socialist. That M. Herriot is the power behind the political throne in France was shown when he and President Lebrun jointly received the Corps Diplomatique last week...
...mentioned in the encyclical were three events of the past three weeks which doubtless contributed to the Pope's dismay at the state of the world-the assassinations of President Doumer of France and Premier Inukai of Japan and the finding of the murdered Lindbergh baby. But last week the Vatican's daily Osservatore Romano, commenting on Inukai's death, observed that recent criminal acts were enough "to make the world blush ... [a] most execrable offense to civilization...