Word: croix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more of a working instrument of government. Unless the Chamber of Deputies is willing to sacrifice its permanence of tenure in the interests of responsible government, there is grave danger that Doumergue will throw off the shackles of a dilatory Parliament and establish a military dictatorship supported by the Croix do Feu. The current cabinet difficulties make this assertion even more within the realm of possibility...
Marie van Houtte owes her life to a smart Spanish consul in Brussels who argued the Germans into sentencing her to life imprisonment instead of setting her before a firing squad. When Germany was beaten she went free and France gave her the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. To perform her marriage last week up rose in the gorgeous robes of a Prince of the Church, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
Next morning the Houston crossed the 40 miles of open sea to St. Croix, where guest and hosts motored across the island, visited abandoned rum distilleries, more subsistence homesteads. Only untoward event was a parade in Christiansted, staged by the local Democratic Club. where marchers carried banners demanding the removal of Governor Pearson, the appointment of a Democrat. His fondness unshaken, the President bade the Governor a cordial farewell. The Houston, with the two destroyers in her wake, streaked away once more over the blue waters, cutting a long diagonal across the Caribbean, toward Cartagena, Colombia...
...motive of wanton pomp or curiosity was leading President Roosevelt thither. When President Hoover visited St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John in 1931, he shocked their inhabitants by calling their domicile an "effective poorhouse." President Roosevelt has already expressed his intention of making the three little Virgins into a New Deal archipelago...
...under the enemy's fire. "With great gallantry and utmost disregard of personal danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company, led it through bursting shell to victory. Major Richardson received the Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor, the Victory Medal and three clasps, the Croix de Guerre with two palms, the Montenegro Medal of Bravery, the Solidaridad of Panama. That helped to make up for the June afternoon on Trophy Point in 1904 when he, too, marched up to receive his class's last diploma...