Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless U. S. citizens contributed many hundreds of thousands of francs toward the 15,000,000 francs wanted. Delegates representing them and delegates of other contributing countries last week signed a scroll commemorating their deeds. That scroll M. Edouard Herriot, onetime (1924-25, 1926) premier of France and now Minister of Public Instruction & Fine Arts in the cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincaré, carefully rolled up and meticulously placed inside the cornerstone...
...newsgatherers. Few realized that he had been professor of law in the Faculté de Droit de Paris; that he was an intimate of Premier Raymond Poincare of France; that he was an intimate of onetime (1917 & 1925) French Premiers Paul Painlevé and (1924-25 & 1926) Edouard Herriot, with whom in 1921 he helped organize the now moribund Ligue de la Republique to fight Alexandra Millerand's Bloc National and establish a policy of democratic post-War reconstruction. M. Rist has been Deputy Governor of the Banque de France for only the past year...
...first and only President of Czechoslovakia, a nation which he and famed Foreign Minister Dr. Edouard Benes (pronounced Benesh) were predominantly instrumental in creating after the War, with the support of Woodrow Wilson...
Their dean, the co-founder (1920) of the Little Entente was Dr. Edouard Benes (pronounced Benesh), Foreign Minister and leading statesman of Czechoslovakia. As host, Dr. Benes welcomed Foreign Ministers Ion M. Mitilineu of Rumania and M. Marinkovitch of Jugoslavia...
They had come to bid farwell to M. le President Gaston Doumergue as he left Paris for Marseilles (see p. 26). They were MM. Raymond Poincaire, Paul Painleve, and Edouard Herriot, now respectively Premier, War Minister and Minister of Public Instruction. The hour was 10:27 a.m., and they knew that the President's special train would not pull out until 10:30. Three minutes remained to kiss M. le President Gaston Doumergue goodbye...