Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While gendarmes and French soldiery scoured the Riviera for spawn of Communism cast out by Italy (who must, said Frenchmen, have been the dastards that bombed Legion trains last fortnight), Retiring Commander Howard Paul Savage and some 200 American Legionaries specially picked for their ability to commerce in goodwill, entered the cavernous railroad station at Genoa...
...week to see old battlefields. Official tours followed the official farewell to Paris. Premier Poincare and Marshal ("They shall not pass") Petain received at Verdun. Lunch was served to hundreds in the market square, once razed but now reconstructed. The Douaumont Ossuary, a monument to 400,000 unidentified Frenchmen who fell defending the citadel, was dedicated. St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Belleau Wood drew steady streams of visitors. At least one news correspondent went to the bramble-hidden grave upon which a onetime U. S. President caused to be chiseled: "He has outsoared the shadows of our night?Quentin Roosevelt...
...Davis donated a cup to be played for by tennis teams from all nations. Last week, at a dinner on the S. S. France, moored in the Hudson River, Mr. Davis, now U. S. Secretary of War, bade "a sad and long farewell" to his tennis cup, congratulated three Frenchmen on winning it from U. S. players who had kept it the past seven years...
However, U. S. businessmen cannot justly complain if they are hard hit by methods obviously modeled on those of the U. S. itself. Frenchmen doing business in the U. S. have for years been in some-what the same predicament that U. S. businessmen in France now find themselves...
...British Foreign Secretary, replying, thanked the committee of well-known Frenchmen who patiently, painstakingly prepared the historic volume, and added...