Word: plat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...
Pierre Mendès-France, planning his comeback, asked for an extraordinary party congress to decide the party's pos ture before the 1956 general elections. Implicit purpose: to oust Léon Martinaud-Déplat as the party's administrative boss. Martinaud-Déplat yielded to the demand but spitefully made the bleakest arrangements possible: he scheduled a daytime congress last week in Paris' dreary, colonnaded Salle Wagram, knowing that a wrestling match was due to begin at 6:30. "If Mendès wants to fight," said Martinaud-Déplat sourly...
...wrestling. Mendès-France's adherents in the gallery - young students and girls with ponytail hairdos, as well as portly elders - were equipped with police whistles. Mendès quickly won his first victory when the executive committee voted, 96 to 87, to replace Martinaud-Déplat by a seven-man administrative committee. Back from lunch came the delegates, full of vim and vin rouge, for the rest of the battle. When Mendès took the rostrum, there was a crashing ovation. A fist fight broke out on one side of the hall...
...with Radical Socialist fingerprints. It was no secret that Mendès incurred the personal enmity of some of the Radical Socialist old guard when he took the Interior Ministry, which they had long considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took office, he neglected to tell his successor Mitterrand about it. Bitterness...
...worker cooperation to keep the business going. So Scanlon sat down with the management and worked out the first edition of his productivity plan. Under it, the workers were encouraged to suggest ways of increasing productivity, and were rewarded by bonuses for any such increase. The men in the plat thus became participating members in the enterprise, with a stake in the company's success and responsibility for its success. The plan worked: it pulled the company out of the red and made it into a profit-making business...