Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France generated an atmosphere of intense expectancy. Was his story of the usual diplomatic kind that conceals a secret mission of high international import? He insisted he would see no French officials ?and then he waited over 24 hours on the chance of conferring with Premier André Tardieu. A mysterious appointment was made for 5 p.m. The French Premier waited two hours for Mr. Mills to arrive, only to learn that he had already departed for Monte Carlo. The Mills household was amazed, for Mr. Mills had been waiting, it said, to hear from M. Tardieu! Said...
...Mystery. Whatever Mr. Mills's mission, France permitted no mystery to envelop her feeling about the new U. S. tariff. Neither did Italy. Neither did England. At a political meeting in Paris, Raymond Poincaré, four times Premier and a party colleague of present Premier Tardieu, flayed the "blind economy and selfish nationalism" of the U. S. He warned: "There is a crisis in the friendship of the two nations which if it is not remedied promptly will grow worse." At Rome the Italian Government upped the duty on automobiles, prime U. S. export, by 167% (see p. 24). In Washington...
Vexed by reports that Manhattan's Chrysler Building is now "World's Tallest Structure," numerous French patriots sent letters, telegrams, petitions to Prime Minister André Tardieu last week demanding that he add a 22-foot extension to the Eiffel Tower, thus making it again tallest...
...France (almost the only great nation not burdened by unemployment) farsighted, go-getting Prime Minister André Tardieu last week presented the Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee with a broad, comprehensive Five-Year Plan of Public Works...
When murmurs rose against the "staggering estimated cost" (17 billion francs, or $666,400,000), dynamic M. Tardieu leaned bristling from the tribune. "Unemployment is coming in this country before the end of the year, Messieurs," he cried, "unless you accelerate the tempo of national industry! . . . It is high time that these projects be launched if France is not to face a period of unemployment like her neighbors...