Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some importance in American art, and the Museum acknowledged fortunate in possessing such examples of his work. The drab mural specimens in Widener require an antidote before the undergraduate novice in art can think of Sargent without prejudice. It may be that acquaintance with vigorous sketches from his prime will aid in counteracting the effect of the pasty colors and blatant spirit of his senility...
...French Prime Minister Andre Tardieu: "As chief of the Government I certainly have no right to comment on a decision taken by appropriate jurisdiction. What I think remains with...
Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign policy of France continues. It remains a policy of dignity and firmness. I have never felt that the moral grandeur of France has suffered from what I have done...
Grandeur into Facts. With the Chamber molten, Prime Minister Tardieu leaped in to mold his fate. He was convincing and precise where M. Briand had been gaseously sublime. Yes, his Government stood for early evacuation of French troops from the Rhine, but not until Germany has ratified the Young Plan, which guarantees huge cash sums to France. The date set at The Hague for evacuation? he hammered in the date, June 30, 1930? was no longer binding, in his opinion, because the unforeseen death of Dr. Strese-mann has delayed German ratification of the Plan...
...policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last that the new Prime Minister is indeed a second Poincare, a strong and jealous guardian of the foreign rights and fiscal integrity of France. When he had done, M. Tardieu received an ovation no less general than M. Briand's. Dopesters conceded him a majority of perhaps...