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...pressure. Siding with Dr. Brown in the doubting column are: Dr. William Duncan MacMillan of University of Chicago, who maintains that X's path is hyperbolic, not elliptical; Professor H. E. Wood, astronomer for the South African Union, who gives X a size 1/30th that of Earth; Fernand Baldet, associate astronomer at the government observatory at Meudon, France; Professor Harold Lee Alden of Yale's South African Station, who sides with Dr. Brown, claims X is too small to influence Uranus; Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Director of Yale Observatory; Dr. Armin Otto Leuschner, astronomy professor at University of California...
While consumers waited, producers conferred. In Manhattan was M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of the Societé Génèrale des Minerals, the Belgian outlet lor the Katanga mines of Africa. Although producers insisted M. Pisart's visit was merely a routine one, many observers interpreted it as a crisis in the affairs of Copper Exporters, Inc., international price-controlling combine. When Copper Exporters was organized, its president Cornelius Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. optimistically stated that its purpose was to keep the price adjusted to day-to-day conditions in Europe. European consumers, long unwilling...
Came a hurricane of cheers, boos, whistles and the thunderclap banging of desks. Purple behind his pince nez, Prime Minister Tardieu shook his fist, shouted: "You have no right to say that!" Prudently President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson clapped his silk hat on his head, stalked from the room. Chunky M. Herriot hopped down from the tribune, started down the stairway that faces the section where sit deputies of the right (Monarchist) wing. Instantly they were on their feet, rushed menacingly towards him. Then up rose Minister of War Andre Maginot, six-feet-seven and broad in proportion...
Foreign Affairs: Aristide Briand* Justice: Raoul Peret* Finance: Paul Reynaud* Budget: Louis Germain-Martin * War: Andre Maginot* Marine: J. L. Dumesnil* Merchant Marine: Louis Rollin* Air: Laurent Eynac* Public Instruction: Pierre Marraud* Public Works: Georges Pernot* Commerce: Pierre Etienne Flandin* Agriculture: Fernand David* Colonies: François Pietri* Telegraphs: Andre Mallarme* Labor: Pierre Laval* Pensions: Champetier de Ribes...
President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson glanced at the bulky ream of manuscript which Prime Minister Poincare carried and quickly disconnected the system of null warning lights lately installed to speed parliamentary debate (TIME, July 8). The Chamber settled itself for a long session. M. Poincare piled high the sheets of paper in front of him, all written in his own microscopic hand, and poured out a formidable drink of water...