Word: berthelot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Labor Syndicate Head Berthelot, representing most of the 6,000 workers at the Brest Naval Arsenal, angrily announced: "We accuse extremists, Communists, of provoking this trouble! We accuse especially the professional agitator Balliere!" After going to work again, the 6,000 proletarians at Brest Arsenal showed where they stood by abruptly stopping work for an hour in a "folded arms protest" against the 10% wage cut decreed for state employees by budget-balancing Premier Pierre Laval (TIME, July...
...swept the rooftops with their searchlights while crack French Colonial marksmen tried to pick off the snipers. All Colonials used in the streets were white, the Government announced, but Toulon's electric plant and some Municipal buildings were put under guard of coal-black Senegalese. Vice-Admiral Louis Berthelot of the Toulon naval station declared: "The arsenal workmen have sent me a delegation saying that they do not wish to be linked with last night's bloodshed which they ascribe to underworld agitators eager for loot." Meeting in a suburb three miles outside Toulon, the arsenal workers cheered...
...hand grenade, and 150 loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec To wound: General Alfonse Joseph Georges of France General Alexander Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia Admiral Philippe Berthelot Police Inspector Calestin Galli Policeman Felix Forestier Marius Humbert Laurent Tortero Mme Justine de Mawer and her son Felix Edmond Brooks Dascomb, U. S. newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. Petrus Kalemen...
...Alengon, France, Pierre Berthelot and wife starved their three-months-old baby to death, explained that "he was too ugly. We just couldn't stand to look...
Married. Paul-Louis Weiller, wealthy French director of the Gnome and Rhone Motors Co.; and Alice Diplarakos, Greek winner of the 1930 "Miss Universe'' title; in Paris. Witnesses: Author Paul Morand, Poet Paul Valery, Diplomat Philippe Berthelot. No witness was Graeco-American Wrestler Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), once reported engaged to Alice Diplarakos...