Word: assemblymen
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...first ballot nobody got a majority of over half the votes, the necessary minimum to elect. But M. Doumer had failed to win by only seven votes. M. Briand by 48. The result, to a practiced parliamentary eye, was decisive-for a large block of centre National Assemblymen were known to have pledged themselves to vote on the second ballot for whomever received most votes on the first. M. Briand promptly withdrew his candidacy, and soon after left Versailles for Paris where, as he admitted, "feeling a little faint," he went early to bed. At Versailles the vote proceeded again...