Word: doumer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned. Two were assassinated: Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist in 1894, Paul Doumer by a Russian in 1932. Félix Faure died a natural death in office...
...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
Former President Millerand has been its legal defender; former President Doumer was a director of one subsidiary; present President Albert Labrum is a former director of another. So--most significantly of all--is former Premier Andre Tardieu, great leader of the Right. There was no stronger influence upon former Premier Poincare in his occupation of the Ruhr than the Comite; the present agitation over the Saar Basin springs from its headquarters. It is governed by a commission of directors, and upon this commission, as President (we must now displease another lover of anonymity), there sits the misty and cloud-wreathed...
...well Richard Wall for $300; a multitude of arch-crooks, killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus lost his last-minute chance of pardon, his sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment...
Died. Blanche Richel Doumer, 72, relict of President Paul Doumer of France; after long prostration over his assassination last May; in Paris...