Word: loucheur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question over which the whole of France is split, matters became graver when the Commission on Foreign Affairs protested because it had not been consulted by the Chamber's Finance Commission about the suppression of credits for the Embassy at the Vatican. On the advice of M. Louis Loucheur, who favors France maintaining diplomatic relations with the Pope, the commission decided to close discussion, preferring to wait until the question should come before the Chamber when everybody would express himself publicly on his own responsibility...
...heads of political wiseacres were wagging over the approaching doom of Premier Herriot and the probable accession to the premiership of ex-Premier Aristide Briand, or the possible advent to that dignity of industrialist Louis Loucheur...
...said to his interviewer: "I should like to see Germany clean up France, and I should like to meet Jusserand [French Ambassador to the U. S.] and tell him that to his 'face." Mr. Kerney added: "He was plainly irritated at the French politicians; none among them, save Loucheur, he felt had told him the truth. Stanley Baldwin's defeat was a good thing, not only for England, but for its effect on Poincare, 'who is a bully', he added...
...Doctor Loucheur (Minister of Commerce) announced, when his patient suffered a slight relapse after this effort, that he expected to keep the franc about 16 to the dollar...
Commerce, Posts and Telegraphs: Louis Loucheur...