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Twenty-nine years ago the U. S. Congress was on the verge of approving a Nicaraguan canal. Frenchmen who wanted the U. S. to take the Panama site off their hands were in despair. Their promise of a $250,000 contribution to the G. O. P. campaign chest failed to produce results. Then suddenly Momotombo blew off. Wily Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French agent, sent a Nicaraguan postage stamp to each & every member of Congress. Up in the Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over...
...have in France political stability, while in Germany they have more economic success, but it is possible that Germany more than France will be able to give Europe what is needed in an economic sense. We Frenchmen must see this problem in the light of realism, but we must also-look at the political consequences. Of course, the German government needs a great success. If this projected plan goes through, it would help Germany gain the necessary stability...
Fifty Million Frenchmen (Warner). Two years ago most producers, feeling that the novelty of sound in pictures could best be capitalized in songs and dances, filmed a succession of musical comedies. When these were overworked, reaction inspired the theory that no musical comedies could be successful in the cinema. Applying this mistaken generality to Fifty Million Frenchmen, Warner Bros, neglected to include in it Cole Porter's score which made it a Broadway...
What remains of Fifty Million Frenchmen is trivial comedy about a young American in Paris who wins a bet that he can earn enough money to get along and make friends with a pretty girl...
Even convinced Republicans may find some truth in his strictures on democracy: "Fifty million Frenchmen. British, Germans or Americans can be wrong...