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...potency test of a French Prime Minister is whether he can lash his budget through the Chamber of Deputies by Jan. 1. Nobody had done it for years until 1926, when great Raymond Poincaré made budget punctuality the crux of his saviorship of the franc. Last week the savior's smart disciple and successor, Prime Minister André Tardieu. battled to equal the record of his chief, battled also to vindicate his own nickname, "The Most American of Frenchmen" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu the Tamer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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