Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time early in the week until a Government should be formed in France to take the place of M. Briand's eighth Cabinet, which fell (TIME, March 15) when the Deputies voted down Finance Minister Doumer's "sales tax" clause in the long: disputed Finance Bill. (TIME, Jan. 4 et seq.) Under the circumstances, both President Doumergue and former Premier Herriot, leader of the potent Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties) decided that, in order to bolster up French prestige before the world, M. Briand must be instantly reinstalled as Premier and permitted to carry on his foreign policy...
Since Joseph Caillaux has been everything, from Premier (1911) to an alleged traitor during the War and unsuccessful Debt Commissioner to the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), this refocusing of serious attention upon him was undoubtedly significant of the desperate shortage of real leaders in France...
...grudgingly admitted that Dictator Pahgalos was at least prompt when 15 million leva ($110,000) passed from Athens to Sofia last week as the second half of the indemnity awarded by the Council of the League of Nations, as arbiter of the Greco-Bulgar frontier clash (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). The payment was made eleven days before...
...Commerce Hoover it is going to establish a fund of 20 millions to rescue genius from "conditions that stifle independent research." It has consulted 30 college presidents and many another notable?Andrew W. Mellon, Charles E. Hughes, John W. Davis, Elihu Root, Vernon L. Kellogg, Colonel Edward M. House, et al.?and one and all are agreed that time and money should be laid aside to guard and fan sparks of the kind that have lately blazed up into the automobile, airplane and radio. The broadest powers are to be given to an administrating board with Mr. Hoover...
...subject of this lecture will be "La fin du theatre religieux; son interet litteraire et historique," and will given in French. It will be open to the public...