Word: gaillarde
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...French national radio did not even bother to stay on the air to announce the result. But it was also the fifth week of the crisis. Irritably, conscientious President René Coty, 75, summoned his confidential aide, barked: "I want a man tonight. Get me Felix Gaillard...
...aide roared off into the Paris night, trying two old (and wrong) addresses before he finally found Gaillard's apartment house on the elegant Avenue Foch. The concierge was annoyed at being waked, totally unimpressed with the information that Gaillard was wanted by the President of the Republic. He summoned a policeman. The aide finally convinced them his business was urgent. Athletic, 37-year-old Felix Gaillard (TIME, Sept. 23), Minister of Finance in the outgoing government of 43-year-old Caretaker Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, hopped out of bed. shaved, dressed and rushed to Coty. Shortly...
...second day as French Premier, Felix Gaillard continues to face some disturbing problems. France has been without a government for thirty-six days, during which time pithead coal prices have risen 6.5 per cent, the import tax has risen 20 per cent, and the franc's value has fallen 20 per cent. To combat the falling franc and the rising Algerian, fresh and dynamic leadership is needed. If the following proposals to M. Gaillard are not dynamic, they are, at least, original...
PARIS, Nov. 5--Felix Gaillard tonight won approval as France's 24th postwar premier. The victory came on Gaillard's 38th birthday and gives him the distinction of being the youngest premier in French Republican history...
...unofficial tally of the National Assembly's vote on Gaillard was 330-176. Gaillard is a member of the Radical Socialist party. It sits just about in the center of the Assembly and has supplied a good share of the postwar premiers because of its strategic location...