Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government a few months ago. Last week they pondered well M. Tardieu's plan, to which he added the bait of a promise that the Government would raise the tariff on coal. Soon the compromise was indited, the bargain between miners and owners sealed, the strike averted. Frenchmen began, last week, to pay less for coal- about $2.50 less...
...Senor Miguel Cinchaga Tocornal stomach. Where is romance, where color? Does all womankind wear "Bar is creations" and display its ears? Is all mankind standardized into that deaf torture, the dinner jacket? Where will this end? Soon we may hear that Germans do not drink beer that Frenchmen do not tempt innocent American chorus-girl-hood, that manicuring is a profitable Chinese industry. Nothing is more shameful than to destroy the faith of the great American peepul in foreign nature...
...potent seemed the motor cavalcade that it was allowed to proceed into the barricaded French concession area, while Frenchmen speculated gloomily on General Chiang's reason for compelling admission to the international city. A few moments later, the cavalcade returned from the French quarter; and the Conqueror subsequently let it be known that his chauffeur had mistaken the way. Soon Chiang Kaishek, his entourage, and his formidable bodyguard were installed at a large residence. A flagstaff was erected and the red, white and blue Nationalist flag unfurled. On a blue field in the upper staff corner...
...made public last week a memorandum from the U. S. practically negativing all the recommendations of the League of Nations Preparatory Commission for a disarmament conference TIME, May 24 et seq.). A British memorandum backing up the U. S. stand was reputed on high authority to be in preparation. Frenchmen felt that the slim chances for holding a League disarmament conference were evaporating...
...shooting, did not mention that Soviet Ambassador to Paris Rakovsky approached Foreign Minister Briand, last week, with a tentative offer to repay 55,000,000 francs ($10,615,000) per annum on the Tsarist debt to France. If this long frozen source of revenue has actually begun to thaw, Frenchmen may well rejoice; but it was rumored that the Soviet Government comes once again with a fair-seeming offer, but intends to hold out once again for further credits from French manufacturers which France is loath to grant...