Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacco-Vanzetti case became even more an international affair with a rumor last week that a committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...
Hero Levine's standing with Frenchmen was ameliorated when he gave 100,000 francs ($4,000) for a pilots' clubhouse at Le Bourget. Hero Levine's standing with his countrymen was salvaged by onetime (1920-21) U. S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, who described the Levine flight and proposed return as a passenger (see p. 19), as a challenge "to you, to me, to everyone...
...Frenchmen were ill-pleased with this explanation and stormed in the newspapers that Pilot Drouhin should have carried out his plans with his countrymen. The Farman Motor & Airplane Co. published a bitter letter about its pilot having been "purchased" and sped its preparations to beat Mr. Levine anyway. The Aero Club of France said it would enter the race too, to insure a French victory...
...months ago, well-meaning Mr. Forrest, whose years of scrivening and dubious golf game have not dulled his sensibilities and his imagination, stood outside the offices of a leading Paris newspaper and watched the posting of bulletins about ill-fated Flyers Coli and Nungesser. Several thousands of Frenchmen surrounded Mr. Forrest and when a bulletin was posted saying that the flyers had been falsely reported safe in the U. S., Mr. Forrest interpreted the Frenchmen's noisy grief and disappointment as an "anti-A m e r i c a n demonstration." Other U. S. correspondents in Paris soon...
That two such smart-chart publications should have thus jointly trifled with the bachelorhood of M. Doumergue seemed, to Frenchmen in the U. S., inexcusable...