Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Masaryk's egotism is as titanic as his achievements. Single-handed he built up the marvelous organization of propagandists, spies and deserters who finally erected themselves into the nucleus of a state. True, Professor Masaryk was indispensably assisted by Dr. Edouard Benes, now Foreign Minister, but none the less Professor Masaryk is the Father of Czechoslovakia. His propagandists are become statesmen, his spies heroes, his deserters officers in the Army of the Republic...
...sooty raven of hard luck creaked again, last week, at poor Edouard Herriot. His toboggan from power has been likened to that of David Lloyd George. Both men are time servers, gambling on the turn of the mob. The undoing of M. Herriot began when he dared to duel politically for the Prime Ministry of France (TIME, July 26, 1926), with wily Aristide Briand, who has held that office nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned...
...also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous appeal the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts cried: "After a lifetime of bitter struggle, Emile Combes declared: 'I never expect...
Architect Edouard Moravicz stood nearby admiring his building, last week, when it began to sway ever so little. Horror gripped his throat, his eyes bulged, and then he screamed?well knowing that 120 laborers were at work within the toppling structure...
...horror-stricken Architect Edouard Moravicz all this seemed too much to bear. Fleeing from the awful sight and sounds he sought a pistol, found Death...