Word: jeanneney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prior to the formation of the new Cabinet, the Chamber and Senate elected their own officers last week. Since the Senators had lost their Speaker, because of his being chosen President of France, they had to cast about for someone new. chose pompous, scholarly 68-year-old Senator Jules Jeanneney, Radical Socialist. The Chamber as a matter of course re- elected by a landslide vote of 50440-50 tall. bold, hot-tempered Ferdinand Buisson, Socialist. Famed for his zesty anecdotes, Deputy Buisson is the political darling of Marseilles (as Premier Herriot is of Lyons). He presides over the Chamber loudly...