Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Breaking the Locks. Starkly simple as it was, the crisp, one-track sound of Pinay's program had a decisive effect in the Assembly. Opposed by the two biggest blocs in Parliament-the Socialists and the Communists-Pinay nevertheless assembled a majority willing to join him in the battle of the pocketbook...
...almost every proposal was a barb that brought squeals of dissent from some faction of the Assembly. But Antoine Pinay, who understands the common Frenchman, was reaching beyond the Assembly to the public. "The remedies are neither of the right nor of the left," he said. ". . . They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce...
Better Than Orson. Suddenly Pinay was a hero. Frenchmen began to compare him with Raymond Poincaré, who won fame in the 1920s not because he had been both President and Premier of France, but because he had saved the franc. In newsreel theaters, flashes of the dignified little man in plain double-breasted suit and the homburg provoked wild applause-"the first politician since De Gaulle who has received spontaneous applause," reported an impressed minister after an afternoon at the movies. At the autograph exchange in the gardens of the Palais Royal, the signature of Antoine Pinay went...
...Cheese, Two Prices. Pinay moved his office to the ornate Hotel Matignon, the official residence of Premiers. But he refused to move even a toothbrush or clean shirt into the comfortable apartment maintained there for the chief of the government; he preferred to stay in his unpretentious five-room apartment, to save himself the rigors of the moving-out day which comes to all who move into the Matignon. As was his habit when a Deputy, he locked up his desk almost every weekend and took off to St. Chamond, to look in on his tannery and, as plain...
...segments of industry into chopping prices (wholesale prices dropped 7.7%). He poked into shops and department stores to watch prices and buying habits. In one food store, he watched as a shopkeeper cut a Camembert cheese in half and then priced each half differently. "Always-you hear me, always," Pinay reported indignantly, "the women asked for the more expensive piece." The story is told that Pinay, unable one weekend to get his customary haircut at St. Chamond, went to a Paris barber, and was shocked when he was charged twice what he usually paid back home. Now there...