Word: gouverneurs
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...This American, this M. Cox-what do you call him?" European delegates wanted to know. Settling the question Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, President of the Conference, dubbed Mr. Cox, "The Governor."* Promptly he became "Le Gouverneur" to polite but stubborn Frenchmen who made up their minds that M. Cox was not going to chair man the Conference Monetary Committee, first and most important to be formed as 66 nations got down to business last week. France, as the sole Great Power still on the gold standard, felt that her Finance Minister, knife-featured little Georges Bonnet, was the logical...
Surprisingly after this clash M. Bonnet and Le Gouverneur managed to reach agreement. Fiscal experts of the U. S., British and French delegations paved the way to peace among their chiefs by deciding that, in their opinion, it should be possible promptly to peg the dollar, the pound, the franc. Since this was the main thing France wanted, M. Bonnet was soon exclaiming "We love Le Gouverneur...
Shortly after Le Gouverneur was elected Monetary Chairman unanimously, even M. Bonnet voting for him. Said Chairman Cox: "I have always favored a sound monetary policy. I have had important conversations with Finance Minister Bonnet which have made me certain there is no essential divergence of our views in regard to restoring financial and monetary order in the world...
Sober, pious, less dramatic than it should have been, The Man Who Played God has the distinction of that crafty dignity which George Arliss injects into all his impersonations. His thin smile, his high nose, his punctilious diction relieve the antiquated arguments of the story (by Gouverneur Morris) which will be joyfully hailed by those who regard the cinema as an agent for good...
...McEvoy ("Bessie McCoy") Davis expired in a Bayonne, France, hospital after an emergency operation. In 1912, aged 24, Bessie McCoy married Richard Harding Davis, swashbuckling war correspondent for the New York Tribune, playwright (The Dictator, Miss Civilization], author (Soldiers of Fortune, The White Mice). Witnesses: Actress Ethel Barrymore, Author Gouverneur Morris...