Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hung on as Premier for 388 days-a record for postwar France. Last week France's postwar Premier, Joseph Laniel, was hot on Queuille's trail. By an astute and unflagging practice of immobilisme, plus luck, Laniel passed the second-best (290-day) mark, set by Antoine Pinay, his arch rival in the Independent Party. If Laniel can last another 100 days, he will beat Queuille's record; but with so much going on in Indo-China, Geneva and France, the last 100 days may be the hardest...
...compensating increase in revenue is out of the question. What cuts can be made? The social-welfare budget is an obvious choice for surgery, but with the left-wing members dominating the Assembly, no government could survive an attack on this. Last year Premier Pinay made a success by slashing long-term investments, but the gain was temporary, the loss to industry permanent...
...pick a man for the job. They could not agree. The Socialists walked out. But 18 others, including nine ex-Premiers, worked out measures they thought they could all agree on, at least long enough to form a government. On this basis, President Auriol asked one of them, Antoine Pinay, a small-town leather merchant who was Premier for most of last year, to try. Pinay agreed "to think it over...
...elections, General Charles de Gaulle's Rally of the French People lost the most ground. His party lost 15 out of its 26 seats in the Paris municipal council, 21 out of 25 in Marseilles. Principal gainers were the independent parties ranging themselves behind ex-Premier Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing, inflation-fighting regime won tremendous popular prestige before its downfall in December. The French Communist Party held its impressive majority in working-class districts, but lost some support in rural constituencies...
...Essential Thing." The time for decision pressed on French politicians. Mayer's predecessor, Antoine Pinay, who had himself refused to submit EDC to the Assembly during his 9½ months as Premier, last week came out for it, and even had a few words of criticism for those who oppose it. "These people who want more out of others while giving up less themselves," said he, "let them give us an effective formula . . . Never forget that while we may be the masters of timing in the organization of Europe, we are not masters of the timing in the organization...