Word: paule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief sensation of the polling centred around War Minister Paul Painleve, who has twice been ousted from the Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster up his candidacy the two least likely persons imaginable: Dieudonné Costes and Joseph Lebrix, famed 'round-the-world aviators (TIME, April...
...fact which seemed scandalous. They declared that the French government had hindered their flight in several instances by intimating through French consuls that they ought not to continue their hazardous program. The only effective aid vouchsafed to them by the State came, they said, indirectly through War Minister Paul Painleve...
Paradoxically, not even this last and touching story availed to elect Paul Painleve last week, though he will have another chance at the forthcoming second poll. The fact that the enormous number of 3,712 candidates were seeking election to the scant 612 seats in the Chamber meant inevitably that many strong candidates failed to poll a majority. Among these was famed Louis Lucheur, Finance Minister in 1925, and "the richest man in France...
Divorced. Paul Poiret. dressmaker, of Paris; and his wife, Denise Louise Poiret, once his "inspiration," of whom he said "I make for my wife the gowns and hats that express my creed;" at Paris. M. Poiret charged that his wife's attitude was injurious; Mme. Poiret countercharged, that her husband was cruel...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, missionary, onetime president of St. Paul's University, Tokyo, and first Japanese Bishop of the Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kwai (Holy Catholic Church of Japan), of heart disease; in Tokyo. Consecrated Bishop in Dec. 1923, his first act was to set about the restoration of his diocese, laid waste by earthquake three months before...