Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peasant-born Albert Lebrun, the engineer recently elected President of France (TIME, May 16), sat owl-solemn through a Cabinet session last week, stroked his wide black mustache from time to time as Premier Tardieu formulated plans "to keep a much closer watch on all foreigners in France or entering France." Lest U. S., British or German tourists be scared away it was elaborately hinted that Russians, Italians and Spaniards will be the chief objects of scrutiny...
...little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined to succeed Right-Centreman Tardieu as Premier of France...
Through the whole night Premier André Tardieu and most of the Cabinet remained at the hospital...
Said Premier Tardieu, who as acting President had invested President Lebrun: "The post of President is one of honor and danger, as is shown by the odious assassination of President Doumer...
Together President Lebrun and Premier Tardieu then motored to Paris where M. Tardieu presented his Cabinet's resignation. Since the new Chamber will have a Left Centre majority, President Lebrun seemed bound to call on Edouard Herriot, most potent Left Centrist (see p. 20), to form a Cabinet soon, but meanwhile the President asked Right Centrist Andre Tardieu to carry on pending the assembling of the new Chamber in June...