Word: loucheur
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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...
...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...
...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
...Sacco-Vanzetti case became even more an international affair with a rumor last week that a committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...
...Loucheur and his friends have the money and the power to realize their ideal. But will they? Can they resist the pressure of Anglo-Saxon gold upon their vacuum? Probably they cannot. Thrifty, as are nearly all Frenchmen, they are already rumored to entertain the possibility of selling to three non-Latins a third each of one of their hundred acres for a sum sufficiently stupendous to pay the expenses of developing the other...