Word: doriot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army research laboratory to be known as the "Institute of Man" will rise on the banks of the Charles in the near future, if Georges F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School and Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, can convince the Senate that the Boston area is the best site for the project...
American Research will get its technical advice from a board of advisers headed by Brigadier General Georges F. Doriot, who resigns this month as Deputy Director of the Research and Development Division of the War Department General Staff. Also on the board are three top-drawer men from M.I.T.: President Karl T. Compton, Edwin R. Gilliland, and Jerome Clarke Hunsaker. The board of directors includes Ralph E. Flanders, board chairman of Jones & Lamson Machine Co. (who will also serve temporarily as president of the company); Bradley Dewey, onetime Rubber Administrator, now president of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co.; and Ira Mosher...
Died. Jacques Doriot, 57, pudgy, mop-haired, ex-Communist, French Fascist founder of the pro-Nazi French People's Party, who once demanded that Vichy declare war on the U.S. and Britain; from the fire of low-flying Allied planes which attacked his car (according to German reports); in southwestern Germany...
...small French town of Morvillars, six miles from the Swiss border. Near by were Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the head of the Vichy Militia, Joseph Darnand. At last report, Petain and Laval were in Germany. The whereabouts of labor chief Marcel Deat and fascist leader Jacques Doriot were not reported. But Fernand Bouisson, president of the Vichy Chamber of Deputies, had been caught by the Maquis four miles from St. Raphael, was being held for Allied justice...
...enough. More violent Nazi- philes, their bridges already burned behind them, moved to range Vichyfrance openly on the Nazi side. Brutal Policeman Joseph Darnand, Minister of Labor Marcel Deat, slick Minister of Propaganda Philippe Henriot denounced Petain and Laval for straddling. Bull-like Jacques Doriot, powerful boss of the pro-Nazi Popular Party, bellowed that France must "make active contribution to this gigantic struggle." The Berlin radio hinted that Doriot might become No. 1. puppet: "A people's Government is ready to take over if the French Government does not do its duty...