Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign policy of France continues. It remains a policy of dignity and firmness. I have never felt that the moral grandeur of France has suffered from what I have done...
...Will you pay it?" queried prying Manhattan reporters of Brother Herman Brenner, head of the fur firm. "If Aaron has really been kidnaped," said Herman, "we'll do everything to get his release. I think it more likely though that he has just gone away on a party...
...Ernest Robert Graham, wife of the head of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, architects of the new opera house (TIME, Nov. 4), wore for the first time a diamond necklace which Emperor Napoleon gave to Marie Louise on the birth of their son. Napoleon II, "King of Rome...
...more than any fifty men, is responsible for this stock crash," wrote Senator Carter Glass of Virginia last week to the Philadelphia Record. He?Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of National City-Bank?made no reply. Hostility of Senator Glass was an old story; besides, Mr. Mitchell had serious troubles to cope with. The still ominous market; the cancelled Corn Exchange merger; the rumored differences with his directors?Mr. Mitchell's position was carrying hazards with its honors...
...Africa, telegraph linesmen, long mystified by the destruction of wires over the veldt, discovered that languid giraffes use them for head rests...