Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tardieu said, selon TIME last week...
...Tardieu...
Began one of the quietest debates in which a Cabinet was ever buried. Andre Tardieu, who had been Prime Minister of Cabinet No. 18, and was leading the attack on No. 19, merely sat with a pad and pencil in his hand, jotting little notes while his friends talked. Even Aristide Briand, whose intrigue was supposed to have brought down No. 18, and who told Chautemps whom to pick as Ministers for No. 19, did not speak. The leaders seemed to want the Chamber itself to speak decisively, if it could. Perhaps they knew it could not. By the meaningless...
...cabinet. He replied that, although recovered from his prostate trouble (TIME, Dec. 23), he has not the strength to re-enter politics just yet. As a matter of course the President's next play in the old fashioned game of Parliamentary euchre was to call on M. Tardieu to form Cabinet No. 20. It took him all the rest of the week to do it, and there was no guarantee that 20 would not go the way of 19; but such as it was, the new Cabinet, enabling grandiloquent friends of M. Tardieu to style him "twice Prime Minister...
...responsibility can be directly imputed to the American delegation, proceedings at the conference did at one time take a turn temporarily alarming to observers eagerly awaiting progress towards reduction of naval strength. It will be recalled that in the latter part of February France's prime-minister, Andre Tardieu, came forward with a demand for a total tonnage of seven hundred and twenty-five thousand tons for France by 1937. Such a program if consistently carried out would embody a possible substantial increase of both United States and British armament. Although the precipitate Tardieu subsequently lost his government temporarily...