Word: cie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which "money is the lawgiver, socially and .politically," when, for money, "people fight and?devour one another like spiders in a pot." Running to 795 pages, told in 104 cinematic scenes, House of All Nations takes for its pot the luxurious Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing business in "grapples, clinches, blackmails, plunges, lucky breaks, long odds, lowdowns, big gambles, and secret bookkeeping...
...Hung in the Wildenstein Galleries was the best private collection of iSth-Century French art in the world. The lifelong accumulation of San Francisco-born David David-Weill, president of the Council of the National Museums of France, senior partner of the international banking house of Lazard Freres & Cie , this anthology of fragilities changed hands last March. The reported price of $5,000,000 paid by happy Dealer Georges Wildenstein established him firmly as the French Duveen...
...make his home in the U. S. after 51 years in France. Born to a Civil War brigadier on the military reservation at West Point 73 years ago, he went to Paris in 1885 as a penniless young engi eer fresh from Yale. His job was with Hotchkiss & Cie., French armament concern founded by a Connecticut Yankee who had sold arms to the Union until 1865, moved to France before the Franco-Prussian War. Engineer Benet has spent most of his life perfecting the Hotchkiss machine gun, now standard equipment in two of the world's biggest armies, French...
...Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss about the same time Maxim and Catling were devising their early weapons. The present Hotchkiss is a magnificent piece of engineering capable of 600 shots per minute. Other arms are manufactured and also automobiles, but the machine gun is the product that really enabled Hotchkiss & Cie. to earn as much as 23,500,000 francs in the late 1920's. Last year's report has not yet been published, but it is expected to reveal complete recovery from the depression low of 12,000,000 francs. In terms of U. S. corporations Hotchkiss is small...
Nonplussed Paris dinner guests of Mrs. Laurence Vincent Benét, U. S. wife of the Managing Director of La Societe Hotchkiss et Cie. (machine guns), aunt-in-law of the Poets Benét, reported that between cocktails and soup Hostess Benet served each female guest with a cotton puff on a silver waiter and a brief note: "Please dispose of your lipstick. ... I love and value my linen...