Word: painlev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much more than exasperate everybody during that period. He took back to France, as everyone knows, only a stopgap U. S. offer to accept $40,000,000 a year for five years as a full discharge on the interest of the French debt for those years. The Painlevé Cabinet, in which M. Caillaux was Finance Minister, fell (TIME, Nov. 9, Dec. 7) and the stopgap offer has not been heard of since...
Such was the appalling measure which M. Briand, called for the eighth time to be Premier of France, deemed inescapable. The last Herriot Cabinet and two Painlevé Cabinets had fallen because those two leaders had been unable to make the Chamber stomach less bitter pills than that now offered it. All France gave ear, and crowds of fashionable Parisians swarmed in the gallery of the Chamber as M. Briand mounted the tribune...
...France drifted last week without a Government following the fall of M. Painlevé's Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 30) it was this factor of willful minority-obstruction which threatened to make it impossible for President Doumergue to find anyone at all who could possibly form a stable government...
...made use of both Doumer and Herriot to split the cartel, When President Doumergue called upon him once more to try to form a cabinet he was ready. After two days of dickering he got together a government, representing a slight swing to the Right from that of M. Painlevé, which it is hoped can command a majority without the Blum faction...
...Paul Painlev...