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When news of this reached Paris, the commonality of Frenchmen either tapped their foreheads significantly or exclaimed with rapture: "Voila un original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peculiar Circumstances | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...with Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Stimson, is accorded large license everywhere at the conference. One Rogersgram announced that the conference had spent "one solid week of doing nothing but attempting to pronounce the Japanese delegate Wakatsuki's name. Next week the agenda calls for the pronunciation of the Frenchmen's names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conference Asides | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

When Minister of Marine Rollin pirouetted, his gesture swept a Grand Salon in slick, mirror-like birdseye maple, softly lit by carved glass Lalique electroliers. Though he had just exhorted Frenchmen to build ugly cargo boats, M. Rollin waxed ecstatic a few minutes later at a unique new feature of the Paris, proudly displayed by dynamic General Director Maurice Tillier of the French Line. On no other ship, claimed he, is there an entire deck devoted exclusively to grand luxe suites each with a separate, private promenade-veranda on which the dogs and children of rich passengers may do their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Why Only Luxury? | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

Musical-A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus), BITTER SWEET, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, HEADS UP!, SONS O' GUNS, THE LITTLE SHOW, WAKE UP AND DREAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...very different was the policy of the French from that of the Spanish. The importation of Negroes continued and only a few Frenchmen settled on plantations in the country or built mansions for themselves in the towns. Theirs was a gay life; social affairs were elaborate and highly organized; beautiful women minuetted with white-wigged planters or, drawn by the soft air and the bright moon, flirted on the cool terraces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Present Social Conditions in Haiti Are Described by Former Member of Legation | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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