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Jean Gabriel Monnet founded the brandy firm of J. G. Monnet & Co., groomed Jean and his brother Gaston to be his international salesmen. There was to be no nonsense of a university education for his sons. And in the local Cognac high school, Jean showed little intellectual promise anyway: he had, and still has, a poor memory, and floundered in the rote system of French instruction. At 18, Jean was sent off to Canada to peddle brandy in the raw Canadian boom towns of 1906 such as Calgary, Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat. He was pleasantly surprised by the absence...
...left halfback Tom Boone, and agile Chuck Reed at right half, recently switched from fullback to replace the sidelined Hank Hatch. As expected, the starting line will be composed of captain Pete Hart and Bob Boyds at ends; Darwie Wile and Disk Diehl at tackles; Bill Swinford and Tom Gaston at guards; and Dave Nyhan at center. All but Grana, a sophomore, and Diehl, a junior, are seniors...
Mike Sheridan has been pushing Darwin Wile for the left tackle spot, but Wile still holds it down. Dick Diehl is at right tackle. Tom Gaston and Bill Swinford are the guards, and Dave Nyhan is at center. Of course, Bob Boyda and Captain Pete Hart will start at end positions...
Paul-Henri Spaak, who resigned as NATO Secretary-General to take over Socialist Party leadership, was of the same mind. Socialist anger was directed at the previous Social Christian Premier, Gaston Eyskens, who pushed through his emergency economic bill-the hated Loi Unique-against the opposition of many of his own followers. With Eyskens gone, the Socialists were ready to compromise, even agreed to accept some of the Loi Unique's tougher provisions, such as an increased sales tax. Stickiest question was whether the Social Christians would agree to the release of the hundreds of Socialistled rioters...
...silly-sickening newsreel of Reichs-kanzler Hitler at his first Cabinet meeting, bowing obsequiously to Von Papen, making cheesy smiles and cute little wriggles of politeness, playing Alphonse to Göring's Gaston over who sits in what chair and, in general, looking like a whey-faced, flabby postal clerk ill at ease in the company of his betters...