Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Left. 2) The 125 radically Radical-Socialists, on whom Briand has often relied before, were left out of the last Poincare Cabinet, are in a huff, and last week made exorbitant demands as the price of their support. And they militantly demanded exclusion from the new Cabinet of go-getting Andre Tardieu, "the most American-minded Frenchman," who was M. Poincaré's close colleague as Minister of Interior, a post which the Radical-Socialists especially covet. 3) The factions of the Right appeared to be in solid phalanx behind a demand that M. Tardieu should not only be retained...
Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent...
Seventeen years ago there arrived in Paris a Japanese youth. He intended to stay one month. Not until last week did he get ready to go home. Meantime he had become a famed, much-pointed-out Parisian. "There goes Tsugoharu Foujita, the artist." His departure was such news in Paris that he felt sure his arrival in Japan would be a national event. Cockily chatting to reporters, last week, he compared the Tokyo he left with the Tokyo he would...
...they can accommodate only 50 internes yearly. Practically none of the rest can get posts in general hospitals. So they must get work in dubious private hospitals or sanatoriums or else start practicing unprepared. Their medical inexperience makes patients distrust them. The patients do with home remedies or go to white doctors...
...Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams, if all the utilities in which he is interested should suddenly be demolished, one U. S. electric light out of every ten would go dark. The investor in Shenandoah is virtually turning his money over to Sidney Weinburg and Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs and to Harrison Williams of Central States Electric Corp. -men whose names are million-dollar assets in billion-dollar industries...