Word: franco-american
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...extremely doubtful, if the event will precipitate a Franco-American war, but it is certain to cause worry in the breasts of students of literature who take their duties seriously. Will they resort to readeasies and readhouses for glances at the illicit pages of Voltaire? It is doubtful, for although the book, like alcohol, has been banned from entry into the United States, the book, like alcohol is still on sale in Boston...
...greatest achievement was Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In 1927 that sensitive plant, Franco-American relations, was in a precarious state due to the un- fortunate flight of the French flyers Nungesser and Coli. Shy, Nordic Lindbergh was just what the clever diplomat needed. He rushed to Le Bourget waving French and U. S. flags; seized on "Lucky Lindy" with avidity; put him to bed in his own diplomatic pajamas; wrapped him in the tricolor; had him photographed, interviewed, dined and decorated; and caused the greatest enthusiasm for things U. S. since French transports of joy hailed the first U. S. transports...
Professor of Civil Engineering at M. I. T. He was for years consulting engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and chairman from 1913 to 1918 of the Boston Transit Commission. In 1918 he was a member of a delegation of American engineers to France and a member of the Franco-American Engineering Commission during 1919. He is the author of many works on engineering, and of "How To Study", published in 1917 and "The Young Man and Civil Engineering" published...
Richard Arnold Stout '29, of Louisville, Kentucky, managing editor of the CRIMSON, has been selected by authorities of the University to represent Harvard as a guest of the Franco-American Maritime and Colonial League, under the general supervision of the French government, on a short tour of France this summer. Lancing Hammond, a sophomore at Yale, and John Mulford, a Princeton junior, have been selected to accompany...
...question of ignoring Article X and forming a posse, with Sheriff America at its head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle is the League of Nations...