Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edouard Herriot, corresponding with the publishers of a book he is working on, gave them a peek at a septuagenarian's psyche. "Now that I have grown old," wrote France's 73-year-old ex-Premier, "I have the feeling, when walking through a cemetery, that I am apartment-hunting...
...campaign wound up, hot & heavy, so did the interest of the electorate. At Clermont-Ferrand, M.R.P. War Minister Edouard Michelet was urging hard-headed Auvergnats to vote no when Communist Deputy Jean Curabet, who had been razzing him from the audience, leaped onto the platform and clipped him on the chin. Curabet then seized the speaker's carafe and emptied it on the head of stunned Minister Michelet-a teetotaler, but not that partial to water. At this point a young woman jumped onto the platform and went at Communist Curabet with her fists. Reported the semiofficial news agency...
...enough French towns were destroyed, according to famed Edouard Le Corbusier, pioneer of town planners and functional architect...
Besides a stronger executive, the M.R.P. wanted a bicameral legislature and an independent judiciary; on all counts it was outvoted by narrow majorities. Its spokesmen-eloquent Maurice Schumann and quiet Francois de Menthon-warned against "government by the Assembly. " Veteran Radical-Socialist Edouard Herriot echoed them: "This will inevitably mean dictatorship by the majority party. . . . Separation of legislative and executive powers, the essential foundation of democracy, has been cast to the winds...
Married. Ninon Tallon, 39, niece of ex-Premier Edouard Herriot of France, onetime French cinemactress; and Oscar Karlweis, 49, Austrian-born Broadway star (Jacobowsky & the Colonel; I Like It Here); both for the second time; in Manhattan...