Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief to all France which, with most of Europe nervously shadowboxing, is not anxious to antagonize Nazi Germany with a Premier who is both a Socialist and a Jew. Frenchmen thoroughly expected therefore that, having voted against the Radical Socialists, the next Premier would be a Radical Socialist-Edouard Daladier, two-time Premier. As a matter of fact, M. Daladier is far more Socialistic in sympathy than most of his fellow party members, hence will attract the support of the Popular Front...
...upset that startled France most was that of Edouard Herriot. For the first time in his political career he failed to win his seat on the first election. Apparently the voters of Lyon felt not so guilty as he had hoped over France's failure to pay its War debt to the U. S. Piqued, M. Herriot cried loudly that he would retire forever from politics, a statement that required a soothing long-distance call from Premier Sarraut before M. Herriot would consent to participate in a run-off that should be a walkover...
Shocked at the thought of French bankers attempting to beg funds from a President Schultz, Edouard Herriot's audience dispersed...
...dearly loves to make a campaign speech is the eternal Mayor of Lyons, roly-poly Radical-Socialist Edouard Herriot. In 1932 M. Herriot was ousted as Premier for insisting that France should pay something on her War debt to the U. S. Last week on a platform in Lyons he did his best to rub his opponents' noses with the fact that by refusing to make even a token payment, France had lost an ally of incalculable value...
...Manhattan's 57th Street, there opened last week the world's first public exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine-textured silk and wool original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled learnedly of high warp, low warp, ribs and slips, joined plain gallery-goers...