Word: doumer
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...Doumer left the hospital between her daughters. Next came the Premier and members of his Cabinet with red eyes and tear-stained cheeks...
...President quietly expired, without recognizing Mme Doumer or his daughters...
Drastic precautions against disaster while France elected her 14th President in succession to assassinated 13th President Doumer last week included six fire engines parked close to the Palace of Versailles lest it should ignite, 3,250 infantry men and 600 cavalrymen massed in the Palace courtyard, mobilization of all nearby military garrisons and a ceaseless roaring patrol of airplanes overhead...
...other's face. A senator and a deputy began a furious fist fight, blundered into War Veteran Deputy Louis Sevestre who has only one leg, knocked him down. But leading Paris papers called the proceedings "among the quietest in years, out of respect and homage to M. Doumer...
...Cried President Lebrun of France, soon after his election: "In the most ambitious dreams of my childhood I never dared hope to attain to such heights. I am extremely proud of the confidence of the nation. ... I will strive to carry forward the exalted tradition set by President Doumer...