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Died. Emile Daeschner, 66, French Ambassador to the U.S. (1925); of heart attack; in Paris.
The Bishop of La Rochelle had denounced the erection of this monument as "a public sin." Reason: the statue represented the most famed and also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in...
At such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered...
Followed a Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill parley. Directly afterward Messrs. Gilbert and Churchill proceeded to the British Embassy for lunch-and their luncheon companion was John Pierpont Morgan.* Not until the cables flashed MORGAN did men of caution and property recognize that the story had really broken. Only then were...
90. Emile Loubet, President of the French Republic, 1899-1906; Edward P. Weston, long distance walker, now witless ; Gen. Valeriano Weyler, Spanish commander in Cuba in war of 1898; David A. Boody, onetime Mayor of Brooklyn, financier; Dr. Alpheus Baker Hervey, onetime (1888-94) president of St. Lawrence University, Canton...