Word: edouard
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...Edouard's Convent, 35 white-coiffed Sisters of the Holy Cross filed quietly into the refectory, bowed their heads at grace, sat down to their frugal supper, when the cellar blew up. Nuns were tossed round the room, the ceiling fell, yet only one Sister was injured, and she not seriously...
...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...
...Democratic delegates to La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with the importance of Mr. Davis, his importance has continued great in delving and dickering around Europe for the President, comparatively unnoticed...
...round Premier Edouard Herriot stepped buoyantly up to the high tribune of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris last week. "France!" he cried with appropriate sonority, "France, Messieurs, cannot take the responsibility of permitting the Geneva Disarmament Conference to fail...
...Premier Edouard Herriot can see the brighter side of things more easily than men as thin as Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...