Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preserve the seats of their trousers as long as possible, French bureaucrats sit on round pieces of leather, are known derisively as les ronds-de-cuir. Cozily last week they closed the books on the French Budget of 1916, obtained the Senate's approval for their final audit which showed a deficit of 22 billion (old style) francs or 110 billion present-day gold francs. When a Senator protested at the ronds-de-cuir delay, Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin hotly assured him that a mighty reform is under way which will permit all French budgets to be closed...
...Oakman, Jr. (H) defeated J. Carr (N), 14-16, 15-10, 15-8, 15-9; R. Coombs (N) defeated Robert M. Mitchell (H), 15-12, 15-7, 15-10; George F. Tyler (H) defeated N. Burnett (N), 15-8, 11-15, 13-15, 15-13, 15-9; Hendrik De Kruif (H) defeated F. Atwood...
Born. To Lady Astor. U. S.-born Member of Parliament: her first granddaughter, first child of her only daughter Phyllis and the 26th Lord Willoughby de Eresby; in London...
Died, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling y Loret de Mola, 62, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S.; of asthma; in Washington. In 1932 he broke with Dictator Machado and on his overthrow in 1933 became successively Ambassador to the U. S.. Secretary of State. Provisional President, and Ambassador to the U. S. Last May he won a life-long fight when he became Cuba's sole signatory to the abrogation of the Platt Amendment...
...Manhattan's swank Park Lane Hotel one noon last week rolled a truck bearing two pure-bred Holstein-Friesian cows named Nysia Maggie Titanic de Kol and Nysia Maid Gertrude. Two white-robed attendants tethered them in fresh hay in the hotel's garden, then painstakingly inspected their gleaming hides & hoofs for specks of dirt. To make news for a charity benefit the two Nysias were that night to be milked by Manhattan's lushest debutantes. First prize: silver cigaret & vanity case. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the more serious girls arrived to inspect...