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...International Zionism. He took command and put his economic principles to work in Palestine. The War situation of Zionism was a crisis. Justice Brandeis considered it an Ivry and was proud to boast, as he (erroneously) remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon: ''I was at Ivry, you were not there." After Justice Brandeis was ousted in 1912, the ré'gime of Louis Lipsky prospered greatly. But lately it has been criticized for the Jewish-Arab troubles, the estoppage of Palestine immigration, for inefficient management. Such things it can ride...
General John Joseph Pershing, changed by Time and the War from hardboiled brigadier to dapper boulevardier, stepped with his crisp cock-robin stride from the Place de la Concorde into the ornate lobby of the Hotel Crillon. An excited reporter from the Paris Herald rushed...
Meanwhile Hearstling Horan, released by the police, hurriedly sped to Brussels, Belgium, then London, lest he be again molested. To news colleagues he explained that Mr. Hearst himself gave him the secret document for transmission to the U. S. in the Hearst suite at the Hotel Crillon, Paris, on Sept. 18 last. French cable companies refused to transmit the despatch, so Correspondent Horan mailed it to London, whence it was put on the wire to Manhattan...
...mind would correspond with the architecture of the Hotel Florentin, the present residence of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue St. Florentin, and would balance the two larger structures of the Ministry of Marine and the Hotel Crillon, in accordance with the original plan of Jacques Gabriel...
...Mayor's immediate surroundings were the spacious gold-and-red apartments of the Hotel Crillon's prize suite, where President Wilson, General Pershing and the like had lodged before him. With twelve servants at his beck, the Mayor arrayed himself afresh and received newsgatherers. They noted a small rotundity under his natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk...