Word: andre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War $3,404,000,000 worth of munitions and supplies was bought in the U. S. for France by one of gruff Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau's hard young men, M. Andrè Tardieu, who returned from Washington with thick-rimmed spectacles and a breezy pugnacity which made Frenchmen start calling him "Tardieu I'Américain"-no compliment intended. Last week at Lyon, in a witness box, M. Tardieu testified with what seemed to most Frenchmen like the brutality of an American gangster...
...ANDRÉ A. BLUM...
...last week's best count, 5,000 Leftists would be more than a quarter of all foreigners in the International Brigade. The symbolic recall of 5,000 Italians would leave from 60,000 to 85,000 of them still in Spain. Therefore André Charles Corbin, French delegate at the Non-intervention Committee, tried to insist that all "symbolic recalls" should be "proportional," in the proportion of four Rightists to one Leftist volunteer...
...Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and André François-Poncet, French Ambassador...
...Married. André Tardieu. 60. thrice (1929, 1930. 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mme Julia Angelique Largen-ton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne...