Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Frenchmen, hope that if France is attacked Mr. Roosevelt will lead the U. S. to the rescue was strengthened by the knowledge that the President & Mrs. Roosevelt both speak fluent French, his mother habitually travels on the French Line (always asking for the same cabin steward) and the new U. S. Ambassador to France, genial William Christian Bullitt, is regarded as the most pro-French U. S. envoy in Paris since the late Myron Herrick.* The political life of the Blum Cabinet has rested in recent weeks partly upon the success of M. Blum in persuading Parliament that...
...week that "through your mother, Sara Delano" the President is "a descendant of a family that originated in Lannoy and which, around 1600, emigrated to the Netherlands." Offering congratulations, the Mayor of Lannoy declared: "It is not without pride that we have learned of your triumphant re-election!" * Too, Frenchmen know that in Berlin the President has an anti-Nazi envoy, Ambassador William Edward Dodd (TIME...
...Frenchmen think he looks exactly like Ed Wynn, they are not sure whether he is insane, and they are always ready to read reams about the latest exploit of Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, the famed "Incredible Philibert" (TIME, Dec. 23). It is incredible but true that in hard-headed France, M. Philibert has got away with printing a fantastic international money which he calls the Europa Franc and which he manages to spend in the shops of his native district of Haute Loire which sent him in 1932 to the Chamber of Deputies. It was not his constituents...
...Museum of the City of New York), but would have had little success with his project when he got back to France without the interest of Historian Edouard de Laboulaye, grandfather of the present French Ambassador to Washington. With the backing of Historian de Laboulaye and other prominent Frenchmen, francs were raised by popular subscription among French citizens to present the statue to the U. S. on its 100th Anniversary, the Philadelphia Exposition...
...this meant anything, it meant to Frenchmen that the next time proletarians try to seize a factory by "folding arms" inside it and locking out the owner, they will be turned out themselves by French police. Whether or not Premier Blum would stick by this seemed more than doubtful, but with the "Blum franc" established last week he next took the most drastic step of his career. Ever since the World War nations have upped their tariff walls while they talked about downing them. Acting instead of talking this week, Leon Blum slashed French tariffs more deeply than has been...