Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 of benches, from ear to ear a whisper rustled like the echo of a thousand leaves: When was Flandin coming? When would he speak...
...into the corridors tumbled the Deputies of France, but now they had a new rumor. Crop-headed Finance Minister Germain-Martin had resigned and Premier Flandin was coming before the Chamber to beg emergency financial powers and long life to a government that had already lost the Minister most important to France's current money crisis...
...Down Flandin. When Deputies straggled back to their desks, they found a flunkey struggling up to the tribune with a heavy pedestal, its top padded with red plush. A few minutes later Pierre Etienne Flandin walked slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin...
...Premier began to speak in a low voice. Yes, Finance Minister Germain-Martin was out, but he, Flandin, would take that post himself. Then he started to plead...
...rescue at this point went paunchy Edouard Herriot, onetime Premier, and leader of the Radical Socialists. He promised the Goverment the full support of his party, keystone of the Flandin government. Since Premier Flandin was still too sick to face the Chamber himself, Finance Minister Germain-Martin was delegated to speak for him this week, with the following proposals...