Word: poincarism
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...even as he speaks of death, the unquenchable fire darts from his eyes. The grey, suede-gloved hands have still the air of sheathing tiger claws. . . . Last week M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, responding no doubt to an appeal from his old friend and political ally, Premier Poincaré, unsheathed his claws and raked the U. S. upon the raw in a curt, sarcastic, seering letter to President Coolidge...
...Premier Poincaré tightened the tough girth of his new "Sacred Union Cabinet" (TIME, August 2) on the Chamber last week and spurred that fractious mettlesome assembly over more high hurdles of distasteful legislation than it has taken in a twelvemonth...
Having gotten through eleven billion francs of new taxation by a Chamber vote of 324 to 110 (TIME, August 9) which the Senate confirmed last week, 250 to 13, M. Poincaré seized his opportunity to ride roughshod, informed the Deputies that they must now pass without amendments two more heroic measures of fiscal reform...
Since the enacted extraparliamentary administration of the fund by an impartial committee was deemed unconstitutional last week, Premier Poincaré arranged with President Doumergue for the immediate convocation of the National Assembly (Chamber and Senate sitting together) at Versailles, to amend the Constitution...
Grim poilus in steel helmets replaced the police guard of the Palais Bourbon one day last week. Within, the Deputies tensed expectantly. Without, an ugly-minded crowd surged and shouted. Suddenly the motor car of Premier Poincaré approached at a speed which gave the mob of malcontents no option between scattering and suffering body bruises. They scattered, reassembled to hoot when he had passed safely into the Chamber. From M. Raymond Poincaré, the Wartime president of France (1913-20), the post-War Premier (1922-24) who sought to collect German reparations by occupying the Ruhr, only one policy...