Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Premier Edouard Herriot fought a brilliant Chamber battle, urging payment on grounds of expediency & honor, he revealed his personal feelings in these words which drew loudest Chamber cheers: "It was the intervention of President Hoover which destroyed everything and reopened everything! The Hoover Moratorium cost France far more than the sum we are discussing now. It cost us our title to Reparations...
...Lawyers- Britain's conscientious James Ramsay MacDonald and liberal, pacific Premier Edouard Herriot of France were too harassed about debts & disarmament to say a word to the League Assembly last week, did honor its opening session by their presence but left before the appeals to conscience began...
...Edouard's Convent, 35 white-coiffed Sisters of the Holy Cross filed quietly into the refectory, bowed their heads at grace, sat down to their frugal supper, when the cellar blew up. Nuns were tossed round the room, the ceiling fell, yet only one Sister was injured, and she not seriously...
Last week bustling Premier Edouard Herriot called on the 72-year-old invalid, told him that he need not write for the rest of his life, that he will receive a pension of 200,000 francs ($8,000) per year...
...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...