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...cigar maker who started at 13 as a sample boy with Manhattan's Stern Brothers, Franklin Simon was the first big Fifth Avenue store above 34th Street. As Stern's foreign buyer, Simon became impressed by French style. When he opened his own store, he picked a Frenchman for his original partner, picked French clothes as his specialty. By 1925 Franklin Simon's was selling $25,000,000 worth of merchandise annually. For his part in putting U. S. women into French clothes Franklin Simon was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Once prosperous...
...Paris one midnight last week a weary little Frenchman, Vincent Auriol, Minister of Finance to Premier Blum, dropped his telephone in its cradle and brought to an end a day-long marathon of transoceanic negotiation. At that moment it was just after 7 p. m. in Washington, D. C. In the U. S. Treasury Department Secretary Henry Morgenthau and a group of weary but pleased advisers also stood around a newly silenced telephone. At 7:30, after he had remained for hours strictly incommunicado, Secretary Morgenthau called for the press...
Professor Elie Cartan of the University of Paris replied in behalf of all the delegates present in French. The small Frenchman with a snow white Van Dkye, dressed in a brilliant scarlet robe declared, "In this land where the development of techniques based on scientific knowledge reached its height, you have always held that science, apart from its practical applications, has a value of its own as a means of culture for the soul; that, like the Humanities, it has its place among the highest of liberating disciplines...
...professors brought forth vague plans, and even these did not agree. A Frenchman was fatuous, an American was reflective, an Englishman was optimistic, but it took a Chinaman to pour cold water on the whole project in a stream of heartless logic. While Dr. Etienne Gilson had the European's traditional and misplaced confidence in the American public, Professor Malinowski of London asserted sensibly that any such organization hopeful of success must be backed by force. Here is nothing new. There is no doubt today that a League of Nations with "horsepower" would enforce the peace its founders dreamed...
...which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though no foreign flyer hadwever i won the Thompson Trophy before. This thought did not bother the burly Frenchman. Without the slightest trouble, he drummed into the lead, won the $9,500 first-prize money with a new world's closed-course speed record for land planes of 264 m.p.h...