Word: loucheur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agriculture?Jean Hennessy* Labor?Louis Loucheur...
Through a lighted window shaggy old Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking...
Accordingly, Germany was represented on the Council, last week, by that veteran pre-War and post-War "career diplomat," Dr. von Schubert, now Assistant Foreign Minister. Came in behalf of France her reputedly richest citizen, M. Louis Loucheur, not long since Finance Minister. (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925). Just prior to leaving Paris last week, M. Loucheur accepted the post of Minister of Labor, replacing unlucky M. André Falliére, who lost his parliamentary seat in the recent French election (TIME, April...
During sessions of the League Assembly, M. Loucheur usually sits next to the aisle-and-front-row-seat of his friend, Aristide Briand. On such occasions the richest man in France frequently leaves and returns to his seat by leaping nimbly over the top of his desk, in order to avoid disturbing Great Aisle Seater Briand. Last week, however, French Representative Loucheur leaped...
...ranks referred to by Pertinax stand the leaders of the famed Cartel des Gauches or Coalition of the Left Parties, which has been the strongest influence in French politics for 25 years. These men include Minister of Education Edouard Herriot, who has bungled so often as Prime Minister, Louis Loucheur "the richest man in France," and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut. Their orbit usually encompasses such more independent socialists as famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and that great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlev...