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...done over, and the cries are growing steadily louder that the kitchen police be prevented from continuing in their present deplorable ignorance of crepes suzette. Even America will come across with less reluctance if it can forget the horror of it. When the Yanks got off the boats at Brest and step into the chromium roadsters there to meet them they will not forget the farseeing designer who started the movement toward a more elegant war. From the Atlantic to Paris the cry will echo: "Dilkusha, we are here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/10/1935 | See Source »

...Manchukuo, the C. E. R. earned $10,000,000 (before Roosevelt) yearly from 1924 to 1930. Thus the C. E. R. changed hands last week for less than five times its earnings in an average year, the worst bargain made by Soviet Russia since Lenin accepted the Peace of Brest-Litovsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Distress Goods | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Died. Major General George Herbert Harries (retired), 74; of pneumonia; in Waverly, Md. He was Wartime Commander of the port of Brest, France, through which passed most U. S. War supplies. As chief of the U. S. Military Mission to Germany he was the first U. S. officer to enter Berlin after the Armistice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Minister to the U. S., Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because of an ''honest expression of opinion," was finally sent to France only to be put in command of the inglorious base camp at Brest. In 1924 Devil-Dog Butler made his biggest headlines when he was given leave of absence from the Marines to act as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia. He announced that he would dry up the city in 48 hours. Two years later, disgusted with politics, politicians and Philadelphia, he returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoarse Marine | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Alexander Tsfasman stands for jazz in Russia. Some of his compositions: "Jolly Blues." "Sky Trot/' "Willy Brest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Jazz in Moscow | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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