Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the breaking of the Stavisky scandal, never a doubt was cast on Jean Chiappe's honesty. No direct evidence has yet been produced, but he did know Alex Stavisky well enough to sit in his box at a theatre. Socialists yelled for his head. Premier Daladier demanded his resignation, but as a face-saver offered him the Governor Generalship of Morocco. The telephone connection was very bad. "Mon Dieu!" cried Premier Daladier to the Cabinet Members in his office, "he refuses and says he will be in the street tonight." The Cabinet decided that Chiappe was going...
...said nothing of the sort," said Jean Chiappe. "I said I refused the Moroccan post and would prefer to be a simple citizen in the street...
...Jean Chiappe had many friends. Blue-caped policemen talked of a protest meeting in sympathy, and Minister of War Jean Fabry and Finance Minister Francois Piétri quit the Cabinet. There was more to their resignation than sympathy for Jean Chiappe. As representatives of the Right they had just been reprimanded by their respective parties for accepting posts in a Daladier Cabinet. Premier Daladier was forced to replace them with Paul-Boncour in the War office and Mayor Paul Marchandeau of Rheims at the Treasury. This put the same old coalition of Socialists and Radical-Socialists back in power...
...excellent example of the shortness of official French tempers last week was the abrupt dismissal of Emile Fabre as Director of the State-supported Comedic Frangaise. M. Fabre has run the Comédie since 1915, and like Jean Chiappe is dearly beloved by his underlings. His offense last week was producing a really popular play in his musty old theatre. Almost as soon as the Stavisky scandal broke Emile Fabre announced a performance of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The house was packed. Every reference to corruption in high office was greeted with roars of applause. It seemed a pity...
...Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone. But in one of the Institute's new buildings on the same street Irene, with her brilliant husband Jean Frédéric Joliot, continues to pry into matter's secrets in much the same way Father & Mother Curie did before...