Word: andres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus in two sentences the President of the United States was devastated, last week, by "Pertinax," unquestionably the leading political critic-journal list of France. "Pertinax," of course, is vivacious, supremely intelligent M. André Géraud, Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris, a newspaper widely esteemed in French military, financial and high clerical circles...
Shrewd, he delayed his vacation beyond the usual date, allowing an impression to seep out that he would not leave Sofia this summer. Then, without warning, the royal motor car purred discreetly from palace to railway station. On the platform stood only one official: Premier André Liaptchev...
...example, Minister of Public Works André Pierre Gabriel Amédeé Tardieu, 50, averted a coal strike last week in quite the slashing style of his lifelong friend and editorial collaborator Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau...
...Third President," M. Ferdinand Buisson; won his election last week by the clean cut vote of 284 to 186. He represents the "Locarnoist" policy of Foreign Minister Briand, and defeated for his new post the onetime "Ruhrist" War Minister of Premier Poincaré, M. André Maginot. Frenchmen were pleased by the elevation of M Buisson last week, for he has held the thankless Vice-Presidency of the Chamber for the past two years with tact, polish, souplesse...
...Nice, Prefect of Police André Gueulechien gazed across his desk, pensively caressing his pointed beard. Towards him from the door, assisted by gendarmes, staggered a woman, gurgling unintelligible things out of a blood-slavered mouth. Prefect Gueulechien listened attentively. He recognized the woman as a Mme. Jaquin, a Belgian lately released from the jail. But he could not understand her. Peering closely, he perceived that her tongue had been cut out, evidently with a sharp knife, close to the root. He frowned. It would be a vexing investigation, for the Jacquin woman could neither read nor write...