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...street fights, no arrests of individual malcontents such as disturbed the initial balloting fortnight ago for the Chamber of Deputies. But Frenchmen continued to think for themselves and to vote according to their thoughts. They were not stampeded toward the political Right by scare stories that beloved old President Doumer had been done to death by a "regular Bolshevik." The second ballot took the same course as the first, a steady swing not to either extreme but from the Right Centre to Left Centre...
Long years ago the future President Paul Doumer attended the wedding of the future dean of Paris cameramen. Last week it came about that bearded Photographer Piston was standing with his flashlight upraised, his camera trained on the patriarchal President at the precise instant when a tall, burly Russian bounded forward and fired point-blank at M. Doumer with a Colt pistol. Instantly dropping his flashlight, Photographer Piston wielded his camera like a club, beating the assassin over the head, stunning him momentarily-and throwing away the chance to make a Picture of the Century...
...strange, sardonic sense the tragedy dated back to a day last May, the day on which Paul Doumer was elected President, a triumph which broke the heart of his far more famed rival and onetime friend, Aristide Briand. On that day victorious President-Elect Paul Doumer said: "It is strange how often the number 13 has arisen to the surface in my long political life. Not only have I just been elected 13th President of France on the 13th day of May, but the last two digits of this year 1931 make 13 when reversed...
Engaged. Lucile Doumer, granddaughter of President Paul Doumer of France; to Marcel Pasquier, lawyer...
Since the Cabinet was overthrown in the Senate. President of France must ask a Senator to try to form the next Cabinet. Last week Paris guessed that President Doumer would ask Senator Laval to try to succeed himself...