Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unaccustomed to the American quirks of Herbert Fleishhacker was a little, button-eyed Frenchman named Etienne Lang, great-nephew of the late, great Parisian Banker David Cahn, who was sent from Paris to San Francisco in 1931 to look after the Anglo Bank interests of the Lazard family. Etienne Lang presently hired a private detective to conduct a secret investigation of Herbert Fleishhacker's affairs. On the basis of this investigation, Lang and his lawyer, a heavy-shouldered Los Angelean named Harold Morton, in 1933 brought suit against both Herbert Fleishhacker and the Anglo Bank in connection with...
...under the guise of salary or dividends. In his brief period on the stand, Banker Fleishhacker categorically denied all charges in the plaintiff's lengthy complaint, maintained he had acted in perfect good faith. Finally Lawyer Neylan called serious little Etienne Lang to the stand and twitted the Frenchman about gold bricks, international debts and finally, in an amazingly facetious bit of cross-examining, about the mythical story of Banker Fleishhacker and the drowned Chinese...
...fatalities. But if all four French planes had crashed in flames, gloom in Paris after the race could have been no worse, for all the honors went to Italy, which took the first three places and the prize money (now $112,000). Even the lone English plane finished before Frenchman Paul Codos finally took fifth. To French aviation the race was a major humbling...
...others. Plunging on alone into the Kuenlun Mountains of Tibet, he was trapped in a snowstorm, endured 30 days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he lay dying in the snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died of cholera the day after he got her. When the plague caught up to him he met his death crying...
Director of operations at the Port Hope refining plant is Marcel Pochon, a tall, well-knit Frenchman who once studied under the saintly Pierre Curie. Born in Versailles 48 years ago, Pochon graduated in chemical engineering at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris, studied dyestuff chemistry in Germany, was at War for four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish...