Word: frossard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, the Daladier moves at once brought the resignations of Labor Minister Paul Ramadier and Public Works Minister Ludovic Oscar Frossard. These two members of the Union Socialist-Republican Party were promptly replaced by the Premier with two other members of their party, new Labor Minister Charles Pomaret and new Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie. Speculation at once began: would the Union Socialists read Pomaret and de Monzie out of its ranks for standing with Daladier...
...burning hoops, hurdle bayonet rows and dive over tanks, bespectacled, stocky, 34-year-old French Minister of Education Jean Zay last week started up 15,782 foot Mt. Blanc. Early entrants for the stiff mountain climb had included Vice Premier Camille Chautemps and Minister of Public Works Ludovic Oscar Frossard (later resigned) (see above). M. Chautemps, however, wrenched an arm at tennis, dropped out. M. Frossard took a test climb, returned puffing, decided to fly over Mt. Blanc instead...
Said Minister Zay: "I was unable myself to be the first to enter, but from the highest point I was able to reach I declare Vallot Refuge open." Said Colleague Frossard: "Thanks to Zay, the honor of the Government will be safe...