Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month as Premier of France, wispy-looking Antoine Pinay, 60, had lost nine pounds. Most of it he lost preparing for the showdown that came last week over France's 1952 budget. He well knew that the budget had been the downfall of his two predecessors-René Pleven and Edgar Faure. They tried to balance the budget by taxing more; he proposed to do it by spending less. His simple suggestion had a staggering success...
...Chamber of Deputies one evening Premier Pinay, a newcomer to the political big time, went straight to the heart of France's economic turmoil. "Currency," he said, "is the image of our country. As soon as the franc recaptures its position, France will return to its former rank." To restore the franc-and France-Pinay demanded ten different votes of confidence. He got them, all in one night-a new record. His plan...
France's Communist L'Humanité last week called Letourneau "the fierce advocate of a fight to a finish in Viet Nam." As such, he is the best guarantee of the Pinay government's intention to yield neither to the Communists nor to parliamentary critics who want France to cut her $3,000,000-a-day losses in Indo-China and concentrate her military effort on defending the homeland and French North Africa...
Businessman's Flyer. Antoine Pinay, 60, was on a Paris-bound train when the stationmaster at Dijon handed him President Auriol's telegram inviting him to try his hand at forming a cabinet. Pinay, an Independent Republican, had never considered himself a likely Premier. With his neat crinkly hair, his long thin face, glasses, and his trim little mustache, he looked just what he was: a small-town French businessman...
...World War I veteran (with the Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...