Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inns were crowded, and nearly every farmhouse had guests in the little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux, sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny Saturday in 1944: just four days earlier the Allies...
...next six months, the doctors had plenty of opportunity to study the illness. In the wine-growing villages around Bordeaux and farther north in the fishing and farming villages of Brittany, there were scores of sick, red-rashed babies. Some, like little François, died. The doctors, casting around for a cause of the illness, advised mothers to stop using this or that medication. But it was pure luck that finally pointed to the cause. Three Breton doctors with a dozen sick babies on their hands noted that all the babies had been treated with Baumol. They reported their...
Standing before a 16-ft. portrait of himself at a Radical Socialist congress in Bordeaux, Herriot attacked the six-nation treaty which would set up a multinational European army against Communist aggression. Said Herriot: "Does this treaty conform to our Constitution? I say no ... All the provisions of this treaty work to put France in a position of inferiority." Herriot's specific objections: 1) under articles 12 and 13, the Germans, and all other nations, could withdraw troops from the joint army on the pretext of putting down domestic disturbances, while if France wanted to withdraw troops to send...
...came a report that talk of sainthood for Christopher Columbus is still going on. The movement began, said the New York Herald Tribune, more than 100 years ago, when a study of Columbus, published by Count Roselly de Lorgues, attracted the attention of Pope Pius IX. The Archbishop of Bordeaux later petitioned the Pope to begin the process of beatification of Columbus on the basis of his "humility, obedience, gentleness, resignation, charity, conformity to the divine will" and other virtues. Through the years, added the Tribune, the canonization of Columbus has been held up mostly because of the expense required...
...crippled man in a wheelchair was pushed along a corridor into the death chamber of Montreal's Bordeaux Jail one midnight last week. Guards lifted the cripple out of his chair and carried him up the steps of the steel scaffold. The hangman fitted the noose, waited for a nod from the sheriff, then sprang the trap. Twelve minutes later, a small notice was tacked on the prison door. "Judgment by death," it read, "was this day executed on Généreux Ruest...