Word: poincaire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daladier begin to acquire political stature as a forceful (some thought irresponsible) leader of left-wing Radical Socialists. In 1928, as president of the Radical Socialist Party, backed by aging Senator Joseph Caillaux (one of the pre-War Radical Socialist leaders), Daladier broke up the Rightist Government of Raymond Poincairé by forcing its Radical Socialist ministers to resign. In 1929 he himself first tried to form a Government, but the old veteran statesman, Aristide Briand, prevented that. In 1933 for the first time he got the big job. He lasted nine months as Premier...
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