Word: poincarism
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Savior-hero of Alsace-Lorraine is dry, statistical old Raymond Poincaré, War-time president of France. When he went a-visiting last week with Mme Poincare to Kayserberg, Alsatians were happy, thronged Kayserberg's Hotel de Ville. A pretty girl with flaxen hair stepped from their midst and spoke with plain dignity...
...Paris, shaggy-browed Aristide Briand immediately sent for German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch, talked to him like an uncle, sent him packing to Berlin to repeat B'rer Briand's remarks to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. White-chinned ex-President Raymond Poincaré, who, like ex-President Coolidge, is temporarily a newspaper columnist, wrote with spluttering...
...extent of the Pope's fortitude became appreciated when news seeped from the Vatican that he had been under close medical observation. Unlike his predecessors Pius XI has no archiater, or personal physician. So from Paris was summoned the great surgeon who operated comfortably and successfully on Raymond Poincaré's prostate gland (TIME, Dec. 23), and from Milan an eminent German proctologist. It has been well known that His Holiness, like very many elderly men of immaculate habits, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. The infirmity can become painful, can cause bladder distress, uremia. The specialists decided that there...
Three years ago they helped to stabilize the French franc by letting Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré have 1,875,000,000 francs ($75,000,000). He let them have as security, as glorified I. O. U.'s, a French Treasury bond issue. In the polite language of financiers the Swedes "bought"' this paper at $93 1/2 per bond...
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...