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Chautemps

American  
[shoh-tahn] / ʃoʊˈtɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Camille 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.


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The Chautemps Cabinet further showed it meant business last week by vesting dictatorial powers for the governing of North Africa in a close friend of the Premier, onetime Premier Albert Sarraut.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile Georges Bonnet, hastily recalled from his post as French Ambassador at Washington to become Finance Minister under Premier Chautemps, had arrived.

From Time Magazine Archive

Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. Reynaud was immediately asked by M. Chautemps to enter the Cabinet as Finance Minister, as it was thought his presence would steady the franc and impress England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meeting Fernando Rivas in the home of the Cuban doctor, Hall was reminded of what an acid-tongued Czech journalist said to him at Geneva about Chautemps, a French politician.

From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan

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