Word: poincares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europeans think of grizzled Raymond Poincaré as the hardest of hard Frenchmen, the inflexible Wartime President, the cold-hearted fiscal genius who as Premier saved and stabilized the franc (TIME...
Last week Europe saw another Poincaré, an old man with tears in his eyes. Broken in health when he left public office, Lawyer Poincaré could not return to practice at the bar. Doctors' fees and hospital bills sapped the small capital he had managed to save. For the past two years he has written magazine articles when not too sick to write. Last summer, by a ghastly oversight the Chamber of Deputies, which had intended to vote a pension to M. Poincaré, adjourned without passing the bill...
...cried M. Poincaré, while tears gathered in his eyes, "I am now too poor to live without...
With their new wealth M. and Mme Poincaré will spend the winter in a tidy villa at the quiet end of the French Riviera in Hyères. There at leisure Monsieur le Président will complete his memoirs...
...Schleicher knew that he could expect nothing from the French Rightists of the Poincaré-Tardieu-Laval group. He made his overtures to all the French opposition leaders, especially to Radical Edouard Herriot, Socialist Leon Blum. He offered them two definite concessions. If France did not openly oppose his plans he would smother the German propaganda campaign against Poland, France's ally, and he would break Germany's close business and financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining...