Word: doumer
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...Friday of M. Doumer's assassination events moved thus...
...year-old President, who lost four of his five sons in the War, left his Elysee Palace to sponsor a sale of books by French War Veterans. In the limousine beside ancient M. Doumer rode alert, bristle-bearded Novelist Claude Farrère, President de la Société des Ecrivains Combattants who were staging their "War Veterans' Book Afternoon" in the nearby building of the Rothschild Foundation. Book sales were proceeding briskly and Novelist Farrère's wife Henriette had just succeeded in selling a third book by her husband to the brawny Russian...
Meanwhile, Pope Pius XI, strolling in the Vatican Garden, had heard the news, telegraphed his hope that President Doumer would recover "with God's help and the aid of science...
...Stimulated by another transfusion President Doumer recovered sufficiently to ask: "What happened...
...purposely?" queried M. Doumer. "Not purposely?" The President sank into alternate coma and delirium, seem ingly worried about why anyone should have wished to run him down, moaning occasionally, "Strange, I remember nothing...