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...Present secretary is Mrs. Frederick B. Butler, wife of one of the Assistant Directors of Public Buildings & Public Parks in Washington. *No kin to Stateman Ariste Briand...
Died. Brigadier General Robert Henry Dunlap, 51, of the U. S. Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...
...Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Last week at the League sessions in Geneva he came, after long probation and tremendous effort, finally into his own. M. Litvinov, as the world press has only lately begun to admit, aspired from the first to be a Kellogg or a Briand: a Peace...
...Aristide Briand once said that the people never want war. Nor do they, save when their imagination is stirred by things like flags, brass bands, leather-larnyxed five-minute men, and armaments. In maneuvering over New York, over Boston, over Springfield and all the larger cities of populous New England, the War Department is undoubtedly giving its pilots much training in group flying. It is a question, however, whether this obvious benefit is sufficient to offset the subtle internal poisons produced by the sky-wide and handsome inctics of the air armada. We are not grateful to the government...
Comedy before tragedy. P-for-Painlevé before B-for-Briand. When Bachelor Briand advanced to vote it was noticed that ladies in the gallery cheered particularly hard. The National Assembly cheered, but not enough of it, although those who cheered Briand fairly split their gullets. They were of the Left-Centre and Left. Enemies of the Foreign Minister professed to know then, for a certainty, that he had been beaten, and this may have influenced later votes. There was all the way from B to K to go yet. M. Briand as he voted glanced up expressionless...