Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the arch-protectionist predilections of Frenchmen, the manifesto was signed by M. Rene Laederich, Regent of the Bank of France, and by eight other potent French financiers...
...round robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom of the woodpile...
...Frenchmen were vexed last week when thieves entered the Musee Condé at Chantilly and stole three million dollars' worth of jewels belonging to the State. Most valued of the stolen gems is "the Grand Condé," a pink heart-shaped diamond measuring more than half an inch across...
...birthday of M. Clemenceau was not "celebrated" last week. Few Frenchmen know his birthdate, for it has been his whim to conceal it from the compilers of reference books. Instead of giving or attending a stuffy birthday dinner, M. Clemenceau observed his birthday by ordering his chauffeur to drive hi mto the village of Les Sables d'Olonne. There he bargained vociferously with the vegetable and fisherwomen for the substance of a frugal meal. Returning to Bels Ebats, he dined alone...
...fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year but lost their plane in a tree collision during final tests...