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...Diarist Galliéni's "Taxicab Army" came in handy, there were only 600 taxicabs and they carried in two trips only one of the 56 Allied divisions then opposed by 44 German divisions. Galliéni, whom the French Cabinet had left behind as Military Governor of Paris when they tied to Bordeaux, received scant official thanks for his astuteness at the Marne, incurred Joffre's enmity, was forced out of active command and died at Versailles in 1916. But merit triumphed. On April 21, 1921, to the rapturous delight of Paris, dead General Galli...
...TRADE MENACE, famed travel diary of a U. S. reporter in Russia, won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize as "the best example of correspondence during the year" (TIME, May 11). This year Diarist Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, gunning again for the Pulitzer Prize, has stalked not through Russia but through Europe. His bag: Fighting the Red Trade Menace...
...became a State in 1912. His tall sleek figure, his shiny black hair, his resounding rhetoric, his theatrical by-play with black-corded glasses have caused many an ignorant observer to mistake him for a onetime Shakespearean actor. His secret hope is to win future fame as a great diarist of the current era. Today he is the senior Senator from the Southwest...
...mind of Diarist Knickerbocker lurks no doubt. "With the ruble at its actual value," he wrote, "the Soviet Union is exporting, in all cases, at a large profit." The Red State, therefore, is not guilty of "dumping abroad," is guilty of inflating its own currency...
Things Seen. Staggering were some of the things Diarist Knickerbocker noted on his 10,000-mi. swing around Reds...