Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Pinay capitalized on the rule that a demand for votes of confidence must be followed by a 24-hour intermission. He usually asked for votes on Friday, so the votes would generally fall on Tuesdays, when the Deputies would have had a weekend to learn that the folks back home liked Pinay's proposals. He won vote after vote, ten of them...
...Missing Element. After the first enthusiasm of "the Pinay Experiment" wore off, his critics began to say that his remedy was essentially a set of short-term fiscal manipulations that soothed the skin but did not reach to the disease...
...hour and a half Antoine Pinay waded through the dry, tricky intricacies of the budget problem. France, said he, had a right "to seek some relief [from] our allies" in Indo-China. There were "grave difficulties" to be faced in foreign trade. October had set new production records, and November had topped October. From the left a Communist rose to heckle Pinay, and made a tactless sneer at Pinay's leather business...
This week Antoine Pinay was back on the rostrum to face more confidence votes, his crinkly hair neatly combed down, his left hand tugging primly at his waistcoat in a characteristic gesture. Another crisis was at hand. Antoine Pinay was gladder than ever that he had left his toothbrush at home, and not in the Premier's palace...
...Pinay has outlasted all but two other postwar Premiers: Socialist Paul Ramadier, who survived 302 days in 1947, and Radical (which means conservative) Henri Queuille, the farmers' friend, who lasted 390 days the first time around in 1948-49, but only two days on a second try, 123 days on a third...