Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken the French Chamber deadlock between the Radical Socialists (moderates) and the Socialists (mild radicals). For the third time since last June a Radical Socialist Cabinet was formed, the job of Premier having been given by President Albert Lebrun to a second-string politician, former War Minister Edouard Daladier (TIME, Feb. 6). And for the third time Socialist Party Leader Leon Blum served notice that he would merely "tolerate" the new Radical Socialist Government,* might wreck it any day as he wrecked its predecessors. Perfunctorily the Socialists joined in giving the Daladier Cabinet a vote of confidence...
With the ex-President available, in case France's crisis should become so grave as to demand formation of a "National Government" above party, President Lebrun tentatively picked another politician of the moderate Left, told pugnacious Edouard Deladier, son of a baker, once protege of Edouard Herriot and War Minister, under Paul-Boncour, to try to form a Cabinet...
...spin as its string unwinds, then winds up the string on itself and returns to the hand. During the past two years a Yo-Yo craze has swept Europe. Among smart Parisians, Berliners and Londoners are hundreds of exalted Yo-Yo addicts, notably Edward of Wales. Just before Edouard Herriot fell as Premier of France, a Paris weekly pictured his frantic appeals to all sections of the Chamber of Deputies by printing a composite photograph in which the Premier seemed to stand on the tribune, playing with a Yo-Yo which skipped and darted into every quarter of Parliament. Caption...
Today, two short years afterward, France has squandered her surplus and faces a budgetary deficit of more than 10½ billion francs. Last month, when Premier Joseph Paul-Boncour succeeded Edouard Herriot, he begged Papa Chéron to come out of retirement and roll up a surplus again. After solemn thought (and probably some chest thumping) Chéron of Lisieux is Finance Minister again. Last week at a painful Cabinet session he told Premier Paul-Boncour & Ministers exactly what bitter pills must be swallowed if France is to have a sound, balanced budget again...
...Senate old General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer cried, quivering with emotion: "I cannot vote this bill!-considering that a fortnight ago we refused to pay America, and yet American soldiers fought admirably to defend our soil, as I can testify!" Unmoved, the Senate voted the Austrian loan 14440-68, after which Chamber & Senate adjourned...