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Proposition: If he would let the Mogul come unharmed into Los Angeles Harbor, her 40,000 cases of liquor ($500,000), owned by Frenchmen of Tahiti, would be put in a bonded warehouse to be sold "in accordance with any import quotas that...
After the first drawing in their new National Lottery last month (TIME, July 31) Frenchmen discovered the disadvantage of being a winner. False friends swarmed on them. Old friends grew cold with envy. Neighbors called them stingy if they did not immediately step up their scale of living. Worst of all, they were obliged to buy everybody drinks, drinks, drinks...
...Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires (1,000,000 francs = $64,600), most of them stayed anonymous...
Several hours later Fulford Patrick Hardy turned up at the police station with his face scratched, all the buttons torn off his vest and a long story. He said that some Frenchmen had struck his mother, kidnapped him, turned him loose. His father, Senator Arthur Charles Hardy of Ontario, heard the news just before his steamer landed at Cherbourg, sped to the rescue with a high-powered French lawyer. Fulford Hardy had been clapped into jail. Mrs. Hardy, not seriously injured, tearfully inquired if he had a comfortable cell, if she might send him his pajamas. Two inspectors hurried...
...alcoholism." He announced last week that he will make an inspection tour of Morocco. Promptly the Paris Matin predicted that when General Max returns he will further deprecate the value of colonial troops, will ask for an increase in the period of military training served by all young Frenchmen from one year...