Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French political situation at present is in many ways like that of last year in England, when Ramsay MacDonald and the Labor Party held places comparable to those in France, where Edouard Daladier has just been named Premier, according to C. C. Brinton '19, assistant professor of History, and tutor in the Department of History, Government and Economics...
...users, they get excellent matches and the price is fixed by an agreement between Herr Kreuger and a government committee. In 1927 Herr Kreuger enabled Premier Raymond Poincare of France to complete the stabilization of the franc with a $75,000,000 loan in return for a semimonopoly in French matches. Although Herr Kreuger is always willing to make a large loan investment in order to eliminate competition, he has also succeeded in reducing competition to a minimum even in Great Britain, Germany and Italy, where no government-monopoly has aided him. In this country, his International Match Co. controls...
...painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture was bought by Donor Lehman. William J. Glackens, U. S. painter and illustrator, won the second prize ($1,000). His Bathers, Ile Adam, hot in color and thin in texture, is composed in a lively, anecdotal manner. Georges Dufrenoy. French conservative, won third prize ($500) for a richly colored, rather thickly painted still life of brocade, a vase, a fiddle. Paris painters, recalling Carnegie's previous recognition of more salient French painters (first prize, 1927, to Henri Matisse; first prize, 1928, to André Derain) were considerably puzzled...
...Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sails from Quebec for England. Oct. 25-27-French Radical-Socialist party meets at Rheims. Party presidential candidate: Edouard Herriot. Oct. 28-Nov. 9-Institute of Pacific Relations meets at Kyoto. Oct. 29-British Parliament reconvenes at London. Oct. 30-General election in Ontario, Canada. Nov. 5-In England, Guy Fawkes' Day national celebration with fireworks and bonfires in commemoration of Fawkes' "gunpowder plot" (1604). Nov. 9-Prince of Wales presides at dinner for all wearers of England's Victoria Cross (highest military decoration). Nov. 9-Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord...
...British motormen did their best to split the 41, crowd more automobiles on British highways, by opening their annual Automobile Show at Olympia, London's spectacle house. Salient facts: ¶ Ten million dollars worth of automobiles were on view, 148 makes including 37 British, 26 U. S., 19 French. ¶ Cheapest car in the show: the British "Baby" Austin, selling for $631. Fords cost British buyers $826. ¶ Most original car in the show: the Trojan, with engine astern. ¶ Staggering innovation: the hoar and royally honored firms of Rolls-Royce and Sunbeam have at last abandoned the cantilever...