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Before assembled naval delegates, crisp businesslike Prime Minister André Tardieu demanded for France a total of 725.000 tons by 1937 in order to give her absolute parity with Italy in the Mediterranean, and to offset the 144,000 tons allowed Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. This program, if built, would give France not only the largest submarine fleet in the world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge...
...three or four years, each Bennington girl will reveal her accomplish ments to the faculty through "examinations, theses, or other objective tests." Should she be successful, she will receive as crisp and sightly an A. B. diploma as ever was given at Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr...
...shoulders rise the second fingers of the right and left hands snap simultaneously from thumb to palm with a crisp double report. * In 1927 he adjusted a six-month dispute between the miners and mineowners of northern France which had threatened to tie up the entire French coal industry...
...corps, veteran of a thousand manicures, husband of a onetime danseuse of the Paris opera. One morning, fortnight ago, his valet patted him into diplomatic uniform, adjusted the cross of the Legion of Honor on his chest, sprayed just the merest squeeze of perfume. His secretary handed him a crisp official envelope blazoned with the eagles of Rumania. His military chauffeur, his gold-frogged footman, his glistening, beak-nosed Renault limousine completed the splendiferous translation of M. Jean Herbette from the French Embassy to the Soviet Foreign Office. There he was angrily awaited by a plump, loosely-clad Russian, genial...
...least annoyed at being called "L'Améericain" is Prime Minister André Tardieu of France. He glories in his crisp nickname, exploits it cleverly. Last week there were rumblings against his Cabinet in the Chamber of Deputies, irate complaints about his brusque methods. Instead of retreating, M. Tardieu charged...