Word: frenchmen
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Four University students from France have been assigned leading roles in the play this year. Inasmuch as the play will be given in the original French, the production will profit by the innovation of having actual Frenchmen in the three principle male parts...
Despite the arch-protectionist predilections of Frenchmen, the manifesto was signed by M. Rene Laederich, Regent of the Bank of France, and by eight other potent French financiers...
...round robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom of the woodpile...
...Paris last week, grateful Frenchmen drafted a petition that Human Benefactor Briez be admitted to the Legion of Honor...
...Frenchmen were vexed last week when thieves entered the Musee Condé at Chantilly and stole three million dollars' worth of jewels belonging to the State. Most valued of the stolen gems is "the Grand Condé," a pink heart-shaped diamond measuring more than half an inch across...