Word: fr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic Clipper from Lisbon came pert, mustachioed J. Frédéric Bloch-Laine to head the French purchasing mission. He is no easy mark for U. S. salesmen-he began buying war goods as a member of France's U. S. mission in World War I. As member of the Paris banking house of Lazard Fréres, he also knows how business between the two countries is done in peacetime. No sooner had word of his arrival spread than eager agents began banging on his door at the French Line offices...
...team: le., MacKinney; lt., O'Loughlin, Elser; lg., Lowry, Peabody; c., Ayres; rg., Sargeant; rt., Gardiner; re., Haydock; qb., Coleman; lh., Lee; rh., Heiden; fr., Spreyer...
While his fellow writers fled San Francisco to die in obscurity and in exile, found religions in New Jersey swamps, become monks, build roads, brood bitterly over their frustration, Poet Miller went back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...
...FR. PETTEE Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...Frémont's life has a freshness and enthusiasm rare in the records of U. S. public men. He was a galloping, theatrical character-when his first daughter was born, he spread a ragged, wind-whipped flag over Jessie's bed, saying, "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. . . ." Even his calculations were naive and almost innocent, as when he stealthily evaded the War Department when he took a howitzer (for which he had no use) on his third expedition to the West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems...