Word: jeanneney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since it is considered indelicate to "run" for the Presidency, no man ever becomes an openly avowed candidate. Political tradition dictates that the President be chosen from the presiding officers of the Senate or Chamber. Jules Jeanneney, the Senate President, is 74 years old, however, and Edouard Herriot, the Chamber President, has decided not to allow his name to be put forward. French political observers believed last week that the best bet was a re-election of "Papa" Lebrun...
...members of the Chamber, who are a few years younger, alone had any right to upset the Popular Front. "Even if you desire such a change in the majority," cried Orator Blum, his voice rising, "it is only for the Chamber, elected by universal suffrage!" Here Senate President Jules Jeanneney cut the Premier short: "Mr. Premier, it is for the Senate, which is an assembly of the Republic, to pronounce its opinion freely-and it will do so in a few minutes...
When the Chamber Committee seemed to have made so many changes in the Cheron Budget that it could not possibly balance. Speaker Jules Jeanneney of the Senate rose to hurl an awful threat. He recalled that the President of France, with the Senate's backing, can impose a budget by decree...
...Authority is not to be begged for but to be taken!" thundered Speaker Jeanneney. "The time has come to take stern measures to restore the State's authority...
...warning to the Chamber, the Senate by an almost unanimous vote decided that Speaker Jeanneney's speech should be posted up on notice boards in every French city, town and hamlet. Since the budget ought to have been voted by Jan. 1, appropriations and expenditures are now so out of balance that the total French deficit was estimated at $400.000,000 and was said to be increasing last week at the rate of $45.000 per hour...