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Meanwhile France remembered that after the last Tardieu Cabinet fell (TIME, May 16, 1932), Colonel de La Rocque, who had never liked Tardieu I'Americain although willing to take banknotes where he could find them, referred publicly to the fallen Premier as a "political corpse." For this M. Tardieu in the witness box took ample revenge last week, although Colonel de La Rocque was there to shout in court: "This is not true! Tardieu lies...
Died. Marie Pierre Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Sagan, fifth Duke of Talleyrand, 78, husband of Railway Heiress Anna Gould; of a heart attack; in Paris. The Duke married Heiress Gould in 1908 after she had been divorced from his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. Her father, Jay Gould, who bequeathed her $80,000,000, opposed their marriage...
Typical of France's oversea air condition is the 40-ton French sesquiplane, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
Last week, however, the ancient, lumbering Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, recently rebuilt, taxied nearly two miles on the sea off Port Lyautey, Morocco, finally got into the air, remained there with its crew of six under veteran Pilot Henri Guillaumet until it had reached Maceio, Brazil, a nonstop seaplane flight 154 miles longer than the record of 3,281 miles, established by Lieut. Commander Knefler McGinnis between Cristobal Harbor, C. Z. and San Francisco Bay in October...
...Dundalk, Irish Free State, Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public...