Word: fernand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Fernand Grenier, youngish (42) ex-clerk, ex-Deputy, now the French Committee's Commissioner for Air, spoke up against political purging. Said he: men should be judged not by past actions but by present performances. Communist Grenier and his comrades had good reason to advocate this policy. Not long ago he said: "In the prewar and early war period many of us were Communists first, Frenchmen second. Now we are Frenchmen first, Communists second...
...Broadened the National Committee's base and upped its membership to 21 by including Communists Fernand Grenier and Francois Billoux, Moderate Paul Giaccobi...
...Hope. In his travels (he still requires all Pepsodent executives to spend at least one-third of their time in the field), Chuck Luckman sold the men who sell the product. His latest projects are more esoteric: to make druggists love Pepsodent he has 1) engaged Industrial Designer Raymond Fernand Loewy to work out blueprints for ideal drugstore layouts; 2) asked the American Medical Association to study cooperation between doctors and prescription departments-though Pepsodent makes no Pharmaceuticals...
...defeat came in 1940's summer, Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors, remarks, gestures...
...Among the world's other top-rankers are: London's Leon Goossens (brother of the Cincinnati Symphony's Conductor Eugene Goossens); the Boston Symphony's Fernand Gillet; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Bruno Labate...