Word: brunschwig
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...Simard, fashionable gland specialist and then president of the French War Veterans in the U. S. Other founders were General de Gaulle's representative, Jacques de Sieyes, who is president of Patou (perfume); Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, longtime French commercial attaché in Washington; Captain Roger Etienne Brunschwig, founder of the French "Broken Faces"; Frédéric G. Hoffherr, Barnard and Columbia professor, who became France Forever's publicity director. France Forever is General de Gaulle's agency in the U. S., expects to attain Embassy status if Unoccupied France is ever taken over by Germany...
...first time France had a Cabinet including women, of which for good measure cultured, bookish, music-loving Premier Blum had included three: Madame the Undersecretary for Scientific Research Irene Curie-Joliot, daughter of the discoverers of radium; Madame the Undersecretary for National Education Cecile Kahn Brunschwig, longtime French feminist; and Madame the Undersecretary for Child Welfare Suzanne Lacore, a onetime village librarian who of late has been outstanding in French child welfare leagues. Under French law these ladies have no vote and, should one have occasion to sign a check while in office, her husband must countersign it to make...