Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pré Catalan,* smart restaurant in the leafy Bois de Boulogne, there motored out last week from Paris the Cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincare. An air of mystery and suppressed mirth prevailed, for M. Poincare was not supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen...
...Monsieur Raymond Poincare, our President, our chief, our friend; in admiration, in gratitude and in devotion...
...Raymond Poincare has been 15 years a Deputy, 27 years a Senator, eight times a Minister, three times Premier (1911-13, 1922-24, 1926-), and was the great Wartime President of France (1913-20). His achievement during the last twelve-month has been: first, to raise the value of the franc from 41 to the dollar to 26; second, to cut the short-term indebtednesses of the State from 24,000,000,000 francs to less than 8,000,000,000 francs; third, to increase the Treasury reserves from 50,000,000 francs...
...There are times when it is necessary to speak clearly. Messieurs, the whole fate of French finances rests on your decision." Such was the climax of a great speech in the Chamber of Deputies last week-a speech that came in compact, persuasive phrases from Premier Raymond Poincaré. At 66 and long since a greybeard, he retains in debate the vigor and combative strength of youth. Last week, in his secondary role of Finance Minister, M. Poincaré was defending his latest budget against the tacking on of a ruinously costly amendment to increase the salaries of all civil...
...Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when M. Daudet escaped, and to back down tamely now in the matter of M. Daudet's telephone operator...