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Poupette Gautier, chic unmarried personal secretary to Prime Minister André Tardieu, showed pique at the acclaim London papers continued to bestow on Statesman Stimson's "beauty chorus of typists." "Well, we French typists haven't any fur coats like the wonderful Americans," said Poupette, "but we came here to type reports and we shall type reports. One might think to read the papers that this was a style show...
Your exile is blest with all fate can bestow-But mine has been chequer'd with many a woe! Yet though diff'rent our fortunes, our thoughts
...prepared, after the wedding, to present his "private citizen" self in Washington; to report with his colleague John Pierpont Morgan to President Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last week voted him one of its three annual three-inch golden Distinguished Service Medals...
...list (see p. 51) of U. S. colleges and universities, and individuals upon whom they this year bestow kudos. The name of one great university is missing. It is missing every year. Cornell University gives no honorary degrees...
...longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...