Word: poujadists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OHIO'S governor was not the only person surprised at the thoroughness of TIME'S questioning. In Paris, Correspondent George de Carvalho managed to slip into a closed Palais Bourbon conference room to hear Pierre Poujade and his 53 Deputies discuss their strategy for the Assembly (see "Poujadists Under Fire" in FOREIGN NEWS). Correspondent de Carvalho thought he was passing unnoticed until he spotted a Poujadist staring suspiciously at his lapels: except for Poujade himself, De Carvalho was the only one present not wearing a Poujadist emblem. But he sat tight, and afterwards invited a Poujadist Deputy...
Poujade's Deputies, no longer swaggering on the hustings, filed almost meekly into the strange surroundings of the Palais Bourbon. But the Poujadist symbol, an enameled red cock crowing, flared from every lapel. And the Poujadists quickly got involved in the Assembly's first dispute: an attempt to unseat four Poujadists on charges of electoral violations...
...spontaneous, secret, planned mass meeting of the newly-formed Harvard Poujadists will occur in Harvard Yard a few minutes after noon next Tuesday to protest the recently announced rise in College tuition, Charles Thomas '56, Poujadist spokesman, announced late last night...
French officials are sober today, even if a bit hung-over from their months-long political binge. Presented by Monday's election with a Poujadist bloc of 51 seats on the far right and 153 Communist seats on the left, France's vital but anemic center finds itself further weakened while caught between two much-strengthened hostile parties. No single conceivable alliance has emerged with a majority or a claim to run the government...
...evasion. Egged on by Poujade, tens of thousands of taxpayers, mostly in southern France, where his strength is greatest, have refused to make their first installment in payment of taxes on last year's income. About half the members of the National Assembly are flirting nervously with provincial Poujadist organizations...