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...Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps had to reach all the way to Washington last week and pluck home to Paris his country's lynx-eyed, long-nosed Ambassador Georges Bonnet, a Radical Socialist who has several times been Finance Minister. Bonnet was sent to Washington last winter by Blum in the forlorn hope that he could wangle big money out of the New Deal. He rushed home last week aboard the Queen Alary, and immediately upon reaching Paris suspended gold...
...launched two months ago with a ball in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. With Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the New Deal's new Minister to Norway (see p. 13), as chairman, and such diplomatic bigwigs as Great Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay and France's Georges Bonnet in the receiving line, the ball produced funds for two fellowships. Onetime (1929-33) Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson awarded these by lot to Czechoslovakia and Nicaragua...
After a sumptuous luncheon the new rulers of Louisiana were glad to take Franklin Roosevelt to Bonnet Carre spillway which the Government built to save New Orleans from floods. Finally they put him aboard the destroyer Moffett and waved happily at him and Son Elliott as they disappeared downstream. Two days later the President joined his yacht Potomac at sea, proceeded to Port Aransas near Corpus Christi, and set out to make friends with tarpon...
...herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary ringlets, dashing Valentine conspires to his own defeat. After succumbing to her petticoat ambush, he saves the reputation of Miss Throssel by sending home the coquettish Livvy in the form of a bolster in shawl and bonnet, under the scandal-hungry eyes of all Quality Street...
...that reason the Mississippi levees just below Cairo were in great danger. For that reason Memphis expected a flood 5 to 10 ft. above all previous records. For that reason 50,000 refugees from the lowlands were streaming into Memphis. Down at New Orleans the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened two days before the water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless...