Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many rumors have been current in regard to the Memoirs of Georges Clemenceau, "Les Grandeur et Miseres d'une Victoire," which he was writing up to the time of his last illness that French officials and two members of the French Academy have examined the work and have signed a document in regard to the state in which Clemenceau left it. The ex-Premier's son, Michael Clemenceau, has just sent this document to Harcourt, Brace and Company who will publish the book, uncensored, in America under the title "Memoirs of a Victory". The document states that the work...
...Annapolis, and George Santelli, onetime amateur champion of Hungary. As Nadi touched Deladrier's breast with the point of his foil or slashed at Santelli with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French, Spanish, Italian, punctuating each touch with the words "et la!" Sometimes "et la!" was a celebration of his own passes, sometimes of Deladrier's or Santelli's; it was a threat, a joke, a warning, a boast, a congratulation. In his pale face, under a streak of hair, like shiny black paint, his eyes flashed; his mouth...
Marion Swenson, 17-year-old daughter of Capt. Olaf Swenson of the icelocked furship Nanuk for which Pilots Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland perished in Siberia (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.), radioed the U. S. press that, now that Eielson's plane wreck was found, she and her father would proceed to Nome in another plane. Said she: "I have had a wonderful experience and I wouldn't take anything in the world for it, but I will be glad to get a glimpse of Seattle again. . . . Every minute of the time has been filled with adventure...
...Command from his father, the late great General William Booth, met with stout resistance from overwhelming Army factions opposed to the Booth dynasty. Then began the battle of the Booths, which raged for months, in which Booths fought Booths, anti-Booths fought all Booths (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928, et seq.). Ultimately Commissioner Edward John Higgins, International Chief of Staff, anti-Booth, was elected General by the Army's High Council...
Married. Constanza, daughter of rebellious onetime Premiere José Sanchez Guerra of Spain; and Lieut. José Estrella of the Spanish navy, one of her father's guards while he was a state prisoner aboard the gunboat Dato (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929 et seq.); at Madrid...