Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radical), 67, outgoing Premier, first to be asked by President Auriol to form a new government, refused, pleading ill health. ¶ Maurice Petsche (Independent), 55, able Minister of Finance in the retiring cabinet, gave up after one week. ¶ Robert Schuman (M.R.P.), 65, ex-Foreign Minister, refused. ¶ Rene Mayer (Radical), 56, ex-Minister of Justice, took a week to put a program together, failed to get the required confidence vote from the Assembly. ¶ Georges Bidault (M.R.P.), 51, ex-Premier, gave up after one day. ¶ Paul Reynaud (Independent), 72, Premier at the time of France's defeat...
...paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once the delight of bobby-soxers, house wives and ordinary song lovers, and the despair of musical highbrows who believe that a great singer's goal should be the Metropolitan, not Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Said Mayer: "I am going to be more active in picture-making than I have been at any time in the past 15 years-but it will be at a studio and under conditions where I shall have the right to make the right kind of pictures-decent, wholesome pictures for Americans...
...months the movie industry had buzzed with rumors that Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, creator of the star system and one of Hollywood's production giants, was getting ready to resign from the studio he had helped to found 27 years ago. It was no secret that Production Boss Dore Schary's cost-cutting regime was just what the big brass at Loew's, Inc. (MGM's parent company) wanted, that Mayer was becoming a stranger in his own house. Last week the Hollywood Reporter's Bill Feeder tried an old newsman's stunt...
This week, with no indication of where he was heading next-or when-Louis B. Mayer made his resignation official. Hollywood, which had long since circled June 30 on its calendar-the day Mayer's annual option comes up-settled back to wait for a few more details...