Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...involved in personalities, later wrangled privately about each other's bad sportsmanship. But they could make no real, telling points against each other, and they knew it. Labor's friend Van Wagoner ran as "Michigan's War Governor"; War Veteran Kelly (he lost a leg at Chateau-Thierry) ran as "labor's friend...
...rents reduced and stabilized on Oct. 1 in 54 more defense-rental areas scattered across the whole country, bringing under federal rent control areas where a total of 50,000,000 people live. In 53 of these areas rents are cut back to March i levels; in the 54th (Chateau, Okla.) the ceiling is based on the preceding October...
Pierre Laval, 58, whose swart skin may be traceable to Moorish ancestry, was born twelve miles from Vichy at Chaåteldon, where he now owns an old chateau (see cut, p. 29). His father was the innkeeper, butcher and one-man post office. As a boy, Pierre haggled with his father's customers, was known as a vicious bully...
Petain intimates claim that in December 1940 Laval planned a coup d'etat which would have detained Petain in Versailles and shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration...
More of the Rothschild's property in France was confiscated by Vichy-this time three great wine-producing estates, including famed Chateau Lafitte (rare Bordeaux...