Word: faites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fait! C'est fait! C'est fait!" cried Premier Herriot of France groggily. "It's done! It's done! It's done!" Espying a blonde German newspaper woman and a brunette French one, he hugged them both at once, then kissed each on both cheeks. Seasoned correspondents threw facts to the winds, wrote into the leads of their dispatches that "Europe's Reparations problems were settled finally and completely today" (United Press); "France and Germany have reached a complete agreement" (Associated Press) ; "Europe settled her Reparations dispute today" (Universal Service...
Senator Johnson's purpose was fait evident. He hoped to show that the U. S. investing public had been mulcted by "foreign bond racket," with issues float during the last decade merely on the strength of reductions secured by foreign powers on their War Debts to the U. He hoped thereby to start a backfire against any further debt reduction. If could, he wanted to show that private financiers were anxious to bring about go ernment debt reduction for selfish re sons. He wanted to show how the U. S. had been what its businessmen...
...Mukden, capital of Manchuria, the Japanese tried to make their occupation even more of a fait accompli last week by staging a parade of 10,000 Japanese and Chinese. The marchers carried banners begging continued Japanese occupation: "We Want Order...
Guest Laval has not forgotten. Neither has Host Hoover. Every few days this month the State Department reassured French journalists that in Washington M. Laval would positively be confronted by no cut & dried proposal, by no fait accompli. Exquisitely anxious to return this courtesy Premier Laval, aboard the S. S. lie de France last week, declared...
...much too High-Church. On these questions the Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church were lined up, more sharply demarcated than they had been in 50 years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction which backed Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been the least picturesque and effective of our Presiding Bishops...