Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the week, world attention switched from Franklin Roosevelt to Adolf Hitler to Edouard Daladier. As the world had hoped- and guessed-Chancellor Hitler backed down, the immediate German crisis passed (see p. 12). What was France with the largest army in Western Europe, the largest gold reserve and an international position the envy of every other European nation, now going...
...that they would not support him unless the proposed cuts were restored in wounded veterans' and war widows' pensions, and in expenditures for social service education. Opposition of the fire-eating Right parties is constant, but in Daladiers own party a split is brewing with followers of Edouard Herriot, anxious to pay France's defaulted debt to the U. S. at once. Daladier and disciples are for nonpayment. As spokesman for the Right, Former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin popped up in the Chamber of Deputies last week and asked a number of questions that the world...
...there is a difference in the Daladier and Coolidge personalities. Edouard Daladier was born near Avignon in Provence 49 years ago, son of a baker. Though Edouard Daladier was no Separatist, a friend of his boyhood was the late great Poet Frederic Mistral, reviver of the Provencal language. Desiring to be a schoolteacher, Edouard Daladier entered a normal school and studied under a plump vomit: man whose career was to parallel his from then on: Edouard Herriot...
...Edouard Daladier fought in the trenches with much éclat. He was cited and decorated several times. Those were the days when nice young ladies "adopted" men in the service, knitted them mufflers and wrote them letters. Muscular Edouard Daladier's marraine was a Mile Laffont, daughter of a scientist. He met her on leave and married...
...Zanottis. too. William Somerset Maugham has made a handy translation from the Italian. Actress Anderson, giving an amusing if reminiscently Fontannesque performance with her hair bushed on top of her head, considerably brightens a bright comedy. Actors Ridges and Carroll clearly earn the applause they receive. Best Sellers (by Edouard Bourdet; Lee Shubert, producer) was adapted from the French by Dorothy Cheston Bennett and is concerned with the foibles of literary and publishing folk. Shrewd Mosca is arranging to have one of his authors win the coveted Zola prize when humble Fournier (small Ernest Truex). his forgotten Wartime companion, comes...