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...Frenchmen's eyes popped as Mumm's Champagne shares, which stood at 85 (francs) on the Paris Bourse last spring, spurted from 180 to 226 francs when Wet Mr. Roosevelt definitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The World Reacts | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...Late Christopher Bean (by René Fauchois; Gilbert Miller, producer). Playwright Sidney Howard has drastically adapted Playwright Fauchois' Prenez Garde à la Peinture, shifted the scene from the suburbs of Paris to New England, turned Frenchmen into Yankees. The result is a zestful tale about avarice, abiding love and a painter whose reputation was made for him ten years after his poverty-laden death. An article in The Atlantic Monthly suddenly brings down a horde of critics, crafty art dealers and forgers about the ears of Dr. Haggett (Walter Connolly), in whose home the late great Chris Bean lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Smith: Go as far as you like. If we were a couple of Frenchmen, we'd kiss each other. As it is we have to rely on a handshake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith Week | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...most part by French War Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour) is that France should propose to the great powers Six Conditions. In return for their acceptance France would reduce her conscript "Home Army" from 200,000 to 150,000 men by cutting the term of compulsory military training which young Frenchmen serve from one year to nine months. The Six Conditions, which M. Herriot said he would demand at Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Magnificent Innocence | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Thunder clouds rolling down the valley of the Loire last week made excited Frenchmen hurry to launch from the river's mouth at St. Nazaire the largest ship in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ship of Empire | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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