Word: andre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one of France's famed politicians took no open part in last week's campaign. He was André ("L'Americain") Tardieu, Premier in 1929-30. After a year and a half's retirement writing his memoirs on the Riviera, André Tardieu was reported ready to run for Parliament from Belfort, at the insistence of Belfort's boss, Senator Viellard, steel tycoon. M. Tardieu went to Belfort. but instead of announcing himself a candidate for the Chamber, he made his sponsor's ears burn by declaring that he was through with parliamentary...
...French soothsayers had an explanation for this. France's ablest Fascists are the Croix de Feu under the leadership of handsome but ineffective Colonel Frangois Casimir de la Rocque. Colonel de la Rocque has neither the plan nor the push to make a real dictator. Neither perhaps has André Tardieu. but he at least is a politician shrewd enough, if not brave enough, to know what to do with the Croix de Feu. if he ever gets his hands on it. A more hard-headed explanation: André Tardieu could not be elected...
...merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from André L'Hôte, in Kansas City from Ernest Lawson and the late Anthony Angorola, in San Francisco from Arnold Blanch. She and her husband live in a rambling house, full of stuffed birds, at Woodstock, N. Y. During her conscientious walks she makes sketches, paints from them. She likes...
...amity. If any such offers have been made, the French Foreign Office and the Berlin Embassy of France have never disclosed what they are and neither has Adolf Hitler. The half-amazed, half-angry reaction of the Paris Cabinet last week was to inform the world press that Ambassador André François-Poncet will be ordered to call upon Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at the earliest possible moment and ask what the German Government does propose...
...Valentine. The plot: Isabelle, half-U. S., half-French, is a very beautiful, quite rich widow at 26. She has come to France to get away from haunting memories of her aviator husband, recently killed in a crash. Thanks to her French connections she meets aristocratic, smoothly handsome André de Verviers, and because his physical attraction is extreme, takes him as a lover-antidote. At the time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot get rid of him. What Isabelle wants is to marry Laurence, an impeccable Virginia gentleman...