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Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense...
Spectacular was the defeat of Socialist leader Leon Blum, though his party made slight gains. All important members of the Poincare Sacred Union Cabinet regained their Chamber seats, including famed mathematician and War minister Paul Painlevé whose re-election seemed doubtful last fortnight (TIME, April 30). Finally a flurry was caused by the election from Alsace-Lorraine of three candidates who desire for their homeland a regional government, semi-independent of France. Since the Prime Minister had personally appealed to Alsace-Lorrainers to show themselves "French without reserve, without consideration, without reticence!" (TIME, Feb. 27) the three elected Regionalists...
That very great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlevétwice Premier of France during 1925, solved last week an equation in army discipline wherein the uncertain quantity was une femme...
...include Minister of Education Edouard Herriot, who has bungled so often as Prime Minister, Louis Loucheur "the richest man in France," and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut. Their orbit usually encompasses such more independent socialists as famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and that great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlev...
...four least known to U. S. newsgatherers. Few realized that he had been professor of law in the Faculté de Droit de Paris; that he was an intimate of Premier Raymond Poincare of France; that he was an intimate of onetime (1917 & 1925) French Premiers Paul Painlevé and (1924-25 & 1926) Edouard Herriot, with whom in 1921 he helped organize the now moribund Ligue de la Republique to fight Alexandra Millerand's Bloc National and establish a policy of democratic post-War reconstruction. M. Rist has been Deputy Governor of the Banque de France for only...