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Once again the great name of Raymond Poincaré was heard. His incorruptibility is a byword. His energy and ability have enabled him to become a much sought lawyer, a self-made man of wealth, a statesman of primatical fame. He has been twice Premier (1911-13; 1922-24) and throughout the War and peace negotiations was President of France (1913-20). It was felt last week that if M. Poincaré would consent to assume the portfolio of finance, solidarity would be given at least to the fiscal policy of France. M. Poincaré (Right: ultra-anti-German) signified...
With the prestige of Poincaré assuring support from the Right, M. Briand turned to his confrere and rival of the Left, M. Edouard Herriot, for 21 years Mayor of Lyons, President of the Chamber of Deputies, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, ousted from the Premiership (TIME, April 13, 20, 1925) when it was rumored that he had connived at juggling the accounts of the Finance Ministry to conceal inflation of the franc...
...suit to be sure, is only a quarrel between two dressmaking houses and would not have lured a single Frenchman from his escargots (snails) had not the plaintiff engaged ex-Premier ex-President Alexandre Millerand as counsel and had not the defense engaged ex-President ex-Premier Raymond Poincar...
...turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor which was slowly hauled down. More commands, and off to a local railway station moved the troops. The Ruhr occupation,* begun on the orders of Premier Poincaré on Jan. 11, 1923, came to an end after 2 years, 6 months and 20 days. Germans were unimpressed. There were no tears, no jubilations-not until the last French poilu had gone, when, at 12 o'clock midnight, bells pealed, flags were waved, people sang and rejoiced...
After a meeting in support of M. Raoul Sabatir, Nationalist (Millerand- Poincaré Party) candidate in the Municipal elections, a number of young Nationalists walked into a Communist guet-apens (ambush). Many shots rang out, three Nationalists fell dead, eight others were wounded, two mortally. The Nationalists were unarmed...