Word: du
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Paris told that the stand taken by the Papacy has already shorn Editors Daudet and Maurras of perhaps half their Roman Catholic supporters. For example, the smart, swagger group of young Royalist bravos who used to be known as Les Camelots du Roi, "The King's Newsboys," because they sold copies of L'Action Française have deserted in numbers approaching a stampede...
...more orthodox deserters have espoused a definitely antiRoyalist weekly La Vie Catholique and now hawk it in the old fashion, but style themselves by a new title, Les Pages du Pape, "The Pages of the Pope...
Then came another jolt for slippery Will H. Hays. In the mass of testimony, the Committee came upon a memorandum bearing minute pencil notations. A microscope revealed four names: "Weeks," "Andy," du Pont," "Butler." Two of these names the Committee could understand. In his testimony Mr. Hays had mentioned sending $25,000 of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds to the late John W. Weeks, at that time Secretary of War. Another $75,000 had gone to U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont, to meet a note due in Manhattan. Mr. Hays had not mentioned "Andy" or "Butler...
...give them what they want," Stockholder L. A. Mathey lectured the Childs Co.'s management at last week's annual meeting. Applause from stockholders was in all the greater contrast to the silence of the management. President and General Manager William Childs was absent. Neither were the du Pont interests (large stockholders) represented at the meeting. Vice President S. Willard Smith, facing the barrage of stockholders' criticism alone, in the absence of all the Childs-William, Luther, E. Ellsworth, William S., all directors-admitted that January, 1928, earnings were one-half of those of January, 1927. Stockholder...
...Sacre du Printemps came next. To some people it was just a crazy progression of noises. But to others it was the primitive cry of a great horde...