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...figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work all night whipping a Cabinet together while everyone else was dead beat, exhausted, pliant...
...most of the afternoon President (speaker) Fernand Bouisson of the Chamber of Deputies had little to do. On his high rostrum at the front of the Chamber he stroked his little white beard, tapped for order occasionally with an ivory paper cutter, but there were few occasions to ring the huge brass bell reserved for bigger ructions. A nervous crowd, kept in hand by a line of police, moiled about the Place de la Concorde and over the bridge to the Palais Bourbon, shouting "Save the franc!" Inside, important speeches were going on but few paid attention. Over the backs...
...Bouisson. To succeed Premier Flandin, President Lebrun turned promptly to the man who had been sitting directly above the Premier all evening, President Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because...
...office hours Fernand Bouisson indulged in the three hobbies that all Frenchmen admire: he eats, with skill and discrimination; he collects pictures and rare editions; he tells funny stories in dialect. Until the riots of February 1934 he was a faithful if unimpressive member of the Socialist Party. Then he resigned m disgust, has since carefully avoided aligning himself with any political party...
Europe's distinguished scholar, author, and soldier, Philippe-Jules-Fernand Baldensperger, professor of Modern Comparative Literature at the University of Paris, has been elected professor of Comparative Literature for five years beginning next September...