Word: gabrielic
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When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors...
...horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain of Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount. For forty days the courageous band held out and fell only after many...
Divorced. Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of French Automobileman Gabriel Voisin; from Gifford Pinchot 2nd, nephew of Pennsylvania's longtime Governor Pinchot; in Dade City, Fla. Grounds: infidelity, uncontested...
...members who will sing in the concert: John L. Angel '36, William J. Baker '36, Robert R. Barker '36, Edward L. Barnes '38, John L. Bishop '37, Bruce O. Blivem '37, Lemuel Bowden '36, Leonard K. Bristol '38, Kenneth W. Brown '35, John H. Burns '37, Courtlandt Canby '36, Gabriel G. Cillie 2G, Manley B. Cohen '36, Louis H. Conger '37, Stewart M. Dall '38, Nixon de Tarnowsky '35, Richard H. Dennis '36, George Ehrenfried '35, John H. Eric '37, Martin S. Erlanger '38, Egbert W. Fischer '36, Walter D. Fisher '37, Hans W. Forster '36, William D. Fraser...
...Gabriel Bagradian. rich Armenian back home in Syria after 23 years in Paris, nothing of this scheme was known. With his French wife and young son he had returned to his family estate just in time to be caught by the outbreak of the War. As an officer of Turkish artillery, he expected to be called up, was prepared to go. But significant incidents and rumors soon showed him how the wind was blowing. While he was waiting for the storm he racked his brain to find a possible shelter. On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found...