Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of the 26 committeemen may serve more than three successive years. Baron Edouard de Rothschild for example, a Bank of France regent for a generation, may be re-elected after his next three years are up only by taking a year's holiday. Debate in the Chamber was remarkably brief. Opponents of the reform bill held up their hands in holy horror at what they called the growth of "Etatisme"-government-in-business, State Socialism, etc. etc. Cried a conservative Deputy...
...years of debate," cried Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. "It is the unanimous wish that if war breaks out again it should not be, as in the past, a source of huge profits for some while others are making sacrifices of their lives. We hope that our example will be followed by other nations and thus lead to the reduction of armaments. . . . War must not be a source of scandalous profit. We want peace, but the peace we desire is the peace of free men and not of slaves...
...candid opinion of most male members of the new Cabinet its three females seemed last week bores, if not frumps; but these Radical Socialist and Socialist males continued strong for "The Red Marquise" and her potent friend, Minister of Defense Edouard Daladier, called "The Bull." Although almost as painful a subject as the new Minister of National Education's song about the flag, the new Minister of Defense's hospitable Marquise Rouge was last week a key to understanding the new Cabinet. Its political supporters, 381 Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists, are not such austere champions...
...sometimes welcomes the old nobility, the distinguished diplomats and the arrived artists for whom it was built by Marie Louise, but today ministers of the first definitely Socialist Cabinet France has ever had are her star guests. Always the place of honor is occupied by "The Bull," heavy-jowled Edouard Daladier, Minister of Defense. Not long ago M. Daladier wrested control of the Radical Socialist Party from paunchy old Edouard Herriot, also a frequent guest of the Marquise de Crussol, and the possibility of a Left coup d' état is never mentioned without mentioning the Bull, who today...
...their own sturdy race than by a great intelligence which has been nurtured on the Talmud!" Other deputies not of the Left proceeded to chime in and soon new Premier Leon Blum had become so embarrassed that he withdrew briefly from the Chamber while gentile Edouard Herriot bellowed at the top of his great voice: "There are no Jews here, no Protestants, no Catholics-but only Frenchmen...