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In Parisian circles which fatten on tourists and rich appetites, a potent name is that of Clement ("Clem") Hobson. Out of Britain came Mr. Hobson some years ago to buy famed Ciro's restaurant on the Rue Daunou, later to control the music hall-restaurant des Ambassadeurs in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Clem's Eye | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

In time's nick the wife of the new U. S. Ambassador to France was escorted into the courtyard of the Elysée, permitted to loiter there. Up whirled a motorcade of twinkling French Government cars, disgorged the U. S. Embassy's entire corps of secretaries escorting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Deep Understanding | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

Tycoon Straus, who resigned his R. H. Macy & Co. chairmanship to become ambassador (TIME, March 20), carried more than mere formal credentials from the White House to the Elysée. A trace of President Roosevelt's irritation at French reluctance to fall in with the White House'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Deep Understanding | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

On the 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'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

While the Paris Stock Exchange was closed in honor of Aristide Briand, while 500,000 Parisians reverently stood in the Champs Elysée intent upon the Peach Man's funeral, a large pistol went off in a luxurious apartment nearby. No one heard it except Ivar Kreuger, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Sleeping | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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