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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to French Custom the party leaders called, one by one, on President Gaston Doumergue, and "advised" him. Having barkened well, Bachelor Dou-mergue summoned Bachelor Briand and formally "charged" him to form a cabinet. A few moments later, as M. Briand left the Elysee, he said to correspondents: "In such difficult circumstances, I could not refuse the honor and charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Life or Death | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...circumstances were enormously difficult because: 1) On the arc of politics M. Briand is several degrees farther to the Left than M. Poincare and would therefore naturally look for support in the Chamber of Deputies to a new alignment of factions and farther to the Left. 2) The 125 radically Radical-Socialists, on whom Briand has often relied before, were left out of the last Poincare Cabinet, are in a huff, and last week made exorbitant demands as the price of their support. And they militantly demanded exclusion from the new Cabinet of go-getting Andre Tardieu, "the most American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Life or Death | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Brothers contract, having flayed Equity in an inter- view, he and his employers were sued by Equity for $1,000,000 damages and an injunction to prevent his acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule in the making of which I had no voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Equity v. Hollywood | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Japanese art circles the work of M. Foujita is considered French, mediocre. In France it is generally held to be Nipponesque, exotic, original. Foujita's women run the gamut from harlots to Madonnas, but all have catlike eyes. Asked last week about his acrobatic Parisian wife, callous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Foujita's Return | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Aghast at the price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Houdon's Washington | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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