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Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey is the "Moroccan Marshal." He was born in France but his spurs and his glory were won on the other side of the Mediterranean, in French Morocco, As High Commissioner and Resident General almost continuously from 1912 to 1925, he pacified a robber rabble, waged reforms as well as war, organized a stable government, and laid the sure foundations of a great colonial and commercial future...
Maurice Bokanowski was born in Havre, but spent his childhood in Toulon, French naval base, where his father made a fortune in department stores. Admitted to the bar when comparatively young he soon became one of the most brilliant, popular and highly feed lawyers in Paris. Originally of radical sympathies he became more and more conservative. His career in many respects was not unlike that of ex-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Grateful Parisians will remember him as the man who modernized their sadly inefficient telephone system...
...from the telegram, the President seemed to become Feldmarschall as of old. Curt orders fired rapidly at the equerry replaced the ponderous, civilian manner of Old Paul von Hindenburg. The murdered man had been his personal military servant throughout the War, and long previous. Master and servant were born on the same day-four score years ago. They grew up together in the army of Imperial Germany. As President of the Republic, Great Paul von Hindenburg remembered his poor old friend every year with a gift of money, on their joint birthdays...
...months ago Eleutherios Venizelos, scholar, statesman, translator into modern Greek of an historical opus by Thucydides (TIME, March 22, 1926), deserted the pleasant island of Crete where he was born, and journeyed to Athens...
Russians were glad: The Roerichs were born there. Nicholas Roerich's father, important St. Petersburg attorney, insisted that his son study the law. The son wanted to study art. He studied both simultaneously and never practiced law. His first paintings were realistic and ordinary, yet showed that flashy brilliance that many Russians have when they are young and conceited. He spent a year in Paris and turned impressionist. Fantastic flat decorations are his forte and peculiarity. In this manner he has tried to picture Russia's and Asia's past. His pieces number about 3,000. Several...