Word: poincare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris correspondents with nothing much to do sauntered around to the dingy Hospice de la Salpétrière last week and dug a choice little story out of Professor Jean Antonin Gosset, famed remover of the prostate glands of Georges Clémenceau (1912) and Raymond Poincaré who left the hospital and strode spryly home last week (TIME...
...potency test of a French Prime Minister is whether he can lash his budget through the Chamber of Deputies by Jan. 1. Nobody had done it for years until 1926, when great Raymond Poincaré made budget punctuality the crux of his saviorship of the franc. Last week the savior's smart disciple and successor, Prime Minister André Tardieu. battled to equal the record of his chief, battled also to vindicate his own nickname, "The Most American of Frenchmen" (TIME...
This year budget punctuality is not imperative. France is vastly prosperous. Surplus tax collections have been piling up over estimates month after month. Therefore, argued many a Deputy last week, why not go back to the good old pre-Poincaré system? In those days the budget debate was a tournament of oratory lasting well into March, April or even...
Though led by Briand, greatest statesman of the Left, the Cabinet was really the old coalition Government of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, "The Lion of Lorraine," greatest statesman of the Right, who was forced by illness to resign on the eve of the Hague Reparations Parley (TIME, Aug. 5). Left cannot lead for long where Right has led. In the Hague emergency M. Briand accepted the thankless, tightrope-walking task. Last week with the curt frankness of an aging, tired man, he told the Deputies that he knew they would soon oust him, begged them in the name...
...minutes the face of M. Chiappe threatened to upset the government of France. Prime Minister Poincaré and Minister Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...