Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week French newspapers received heavier cable reports concerning the progress of M. Caillaux's mission (see Page 6, Cabinet) than have ever before flashed eastward over the wires. Frenchmen, early pleased by the cordiality of Secretary Mellon's greeting to M. Caillaux, became angry, excited and somewhat defiant as the rejection of the initial French debt proposals became known. Phrases flew: "France bloodless, the U. S. stuffed with food . . . refuse to discuss the Mellon memorandum . . . Frenchmen slaves for 62 years ... the feudal U. S. mentality . . . 'virtuous' President Coolidge ... if M. Caillaux must return without...
...Gathering. Crossing the boundaries of their fatherlands, legislators last week made their way towards Washington. Ex-Chancellor Josef Wirth, of Germany, lately resigned from his party (TIME, Sept. 7, Germany), was among the first arrivals. Frenchmen, Germans, Englishmen, Italians, Swiss, Rumanians, Austrians, Czechs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Serbs, Swedes, Poles, Irish, Magyars, Belgians, Bulgarians, Canadians, Egyptians, Finns, Dutchmen, Norwegians, Danes were on their...
Last week, famed Frenchmen led a slow funeral procession across country roads through multitudes of mourning peasants and bourgeois to St.-Fargeau, near Paris, and buried the body of the disconsolate orator besides the grave of his wife...
...trouble. Commander John Rogers on the seaplane had reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...
Kind hands massaged his temples; sprinkled water on his faint cheeks; after two minutes he bounded to his feet. The crowd huzzahed. Encouraged the Frenchmen ran out the last set which gave them the match...