Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only thrice before has the French Senate felled a Cabinet: Herriot's in 1925, Briand's in 1913, Bourgeois' in 1896. Last week M. Tardieu faced MM. Les Senateurs backed by the prestige of a vote of confidence he had just won in the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 64. The worst that could fairly be said against his Government was that he recently accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Raoul Peret when it appeared that many years ago M. Peret was the attorney of M. Albert Oustric, French swindler jailed last month. Senator...
...want no scapegoats," he cried. "This whole Cabinet must go. M. Tardieu has been compared with Napoleon. The comparison will be complete when he meets his Waterloo...
Just before the Senate voted seasoned observers thought that the French Cabinet would win through, for its members were not in fact tarred with the Oustric scandal. However go-getting "Napoleon Tardieu" has long seemed too much of "a young man in a hurry" to many an aged Senator. Wire-pulling forces worked against him. His Cabinet fell by the close vote...
Since great Raymond Poincaré had already refused President Gaston Doumergue's request that he again take the helm, no candidate seemed outstanding. Chances were even that M. Tardieu might again succeed himself as Prime Minister, as he did when his first Cabinet fell (TIME, March...
Married. James Hazen Hyde, onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...