Word: sanday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional Career. Until 1942 Faure practiced law, used his criminal cases as background for a series of detective stories written under the pen name of Edgar Sanday. The Faures caught the last boat to leave Vichy France for North Africa, where Edgar joined General de Gaulle. After liberation he was put in a financial job by Mendès, then Minister of National Economy. A typical Faure legend has it that he committed the 1,000-page tax catalogue to memory in four days, amazed the Assembly by answering questions on a complex tax proposal for two hours without preparation...
...able Minister of Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mendès' effort to stave off his threatening tumble from power by a gesture to the country's "European" wing. But agile as Mendès-France is, his enemies...
...Conant will be at home as usual from 4 to 6 p.m. Sanday and will receive members of the faculties, others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives...