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...France intended to finance defeat became apparent when the Petain Government ordered the confiscation of the wealth and private property of Banker Baron Edouard de Rothschild and millionaire Importer Louis Louis-Dreyfus, who held two of the five great fortunes of France. A decree permitted the Government to revoke the citizenship and seize the property of persons who fled from France unless they return and provide "good reasons" for their flight. That Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, who arrived in the U. S. by Clipper with $1,000,000 worth of jewels in a little bag, would return to France...
Chorister Holvik of Elbow Lake, Minnesota, and Eliot House tallied 90 votes. Other candidates and their votes were: Charles D. Lutz, Jr., 70; James A. Rousmaniere, 67; David S. Burt, 63: Edward G. Dreyfus, 53; A. Jan P. La Rue, 50: Bayard S. Clark, 44; Howard P. Mendel, 35; and John L. Donnell...
Donald McD. D. Thurber '40 was added to the list of nominees for Treasurer, and Edward G. Dreyfus received the 25 signatures necessary to place him on the Class Chorister slate...
HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...
...April 1938 the name of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan was on every front page in the land. His expulsion from his post as TVA chairman by President Roosevelt brought the cry from New Hampshire's Senator Bridges, "This is an American Dreyfus case." But by last week most U. S. citizens had forgotten the tall, slant-jawed "Bald Eagle" of Yellow Springs, Ohio, were surprised to learn he was still in there fighting...