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...dictionary at random. Last spring the dictionary opened at L. Alphabetically no other L name in the National Assembly could beat Laval. Having cast the first vote Premier Laval saw his shaggy old mentor Aristide Briand heartbreakingly defeated for the Presidency, which fell to water-drinking, penny-pinching Paul Doumer...
...special train to Paris the Premier described these obligations as "audacious measures of rapprochement with Germany." His first act in the Capital, apart from the necessary call of respect on President Paul Doumer, was to get in touch with German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch. As fast as possible the two statesmen will elaborate plans for Germany to take the "initiative" toward an extension of the Hoover One-Year Moratorium or some actual cancellation of Reparations and War Debts which President Hoover and Premier Laval agreed Germany must take (TIME, June 29). "President Hoover stressed and I agree," declared bubbling, vigorous...
...arrived unexpectedly and decorated him with the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor. Mayor Walker was, for the first time in his life, struck dumb. This unprecedented honor was genuinely unexpected. Champagne was ordered and he regained his speech. Next day he went to call on President Doumer "to pay my respects to my chief personally." His tentative departure for the U. S. was set for Sept. 16, before which he will visit London.? Said he: "I'm feeling no better than when I left New York and this isn't 'Seaburysickness' either...
Naturally, the new President of France, 74-year-old Paul Doumer. entertained the comparatively young Dutch Queen (she is only 51) at his Elysee Palace. Next came a return banquet at the Dutch Legation- and that...
Died. Clement Armand Fallieres, 89. eighth president of France (1906-13); of a heart attack; at his Mezin home. Defeated candidate in his election was Paul Doumer, present President. In the Fallieres administration occurred the famed vindication of Alfred Dreyfus...