Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations is to be saved by restraining Benito Mussolini, obviously France and Britain must do the hog-tying. In Paris swart, astute Premier Pierre Laval picked the strongest possible delegation of pro-League French statesmen to go with him this week to Geneva. Portly, pipe-sucking Edouard Herriot and fluffy-maned, impassioned Joseph Paul-Boncour, both onetime Premiers, are the two big League guns, but they are flanked by pontifical old Henry Berenger, Chairman of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and kinetic Deputy Paul Bastid, the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Chairman. Though French public opinion remained...
Engaged. Jean ("Bounding Basque") Borotra, French tennist; and Mme Edouard Barrachin, Biarritz socialite. For M. Borotra it will be a first marriage...
White-bearded, excitable M. Anatole Deibler, as well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Herriot, arrived in Bastia last week on professional business. With him he had his son-in-law, Andre Perrier, and a small traveling guillotine. Since 1879 the Deibler family have been guillotineurs to the French Republic...
After a full hour of this, Premier Flandin stepped from the rostrum, walked slowly from the Chamber, slumped in a faint in the corridor outside. He was hustled home, put to bed. Not for many hours did he learn that his entire speech had been in vain. Paunchy little Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists, had leaped in to plead the government's case until long past midnight. It did not change a vote. The Flandin Cabinet was voted...
...rescue at this point went paunchy Edouard Herriot, onetime Premier, and leader of the Radical Socialists. He promised the Goverment the full support of his party, keystone of the Flandin government. Since Premier Flandin was still too sick to face the Chamber himself, Finance Minister Germain-Martin was delegated to speak for him this week, with the following proposals...