Word: mm
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Only thrice before has the French Senate felled a Cabinet: Herriot's in 1925, Briand's in 1913, Bourgeois' in 1896. Last week M. Tardieu faced MM. Les Senateurs backed by the prestige of a vote of confidence he had just won in the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 64. The worst that could fairly be said against his Government was that he recently accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Raoul Peret when it appeared that many years ago M. Peret was the attorney of M. Albert Oustric, French swindler jailed last month. Senator...
...formal banquet tendered by the President of France last week Asturias walked in erect and smiling, chatted animatedly with Mm Doumergue and Briand and with Members cf the Corps Diplomatique. Every day thereafter he took moderately long walks in the Paris Bois. He then left for Switzerland to be put through a course of calisthenics at Bern...
...neat little trick in the repertoire of every French Prime Minister is the one by which he picks exactly the right split-second to adjourn Parliament before Mm. Les Députés upset his Cabinet. Always as a session draws to its close French legislators become hyperexcitable, super-suspicious, jealous of their power, ready to shout the Government out of office on any pretext. All last week the Chamber was bedlam...
...Mm. les Senateurs promptly and emphatically rejected the bill, announcing that the society never had the slightest right to suppose that the French Government would pay one sou toward their building...
Before evening a telephone message was sent to Group Commander Stampfer (French) at Mont Notre Dame to detach a battery of 305 mm. or twelve-inch rifles on Batignolles railway carriages and send them north to Vailley where they were to set up and fire on the map coordinates 47-25 near Crepy...