Word: henrie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Identify definitely, but briefly, each of the following: 1. Jose Maria Moncada; 2. Chiang-Kai-Shek; 3. John Roach Straton; 4. M. Bleriot; 5. Frank R. McCoy; 6. Henri Wilhelm Deterding; 7. Alvan T. Fuller...
...napped and Publisher Patterson read Spanish papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle where Pauline Bonaparte...
...Paris-having chosen California as his place to toil and go bankrupt publishing tabloid news organs. Therefore announcements that General Cornelius Vanderbilt had made available $2,257,000 to pay the California tabloid creditors (TIME, Dec. 31), were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne had actually completed a whole fortnight...
...late famed international polo player Edward Gwynne, reamed high explosive shells in a French munition factory (1915-17), soldiered in the A. E. F. (1917-18), and worked his way around the world on cargo boats (1919-22). Returning to Paris he found a berth with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor of Deauville (which he launched as a smart resort with Eugene Cornuche), owns...
...secretary to Henri Letellier and occasional pinch-hitting director of Le Journal in his absence, Erskine Gwynne naturally acquired the bibulous intimacy with Le Monde Mondain which has enabled him to found and float The Boulevardier. Today he claims 7,000 subscribers, and a larger Paris circulation than the international Paris Comet, a rival smart-chart published simultaneously in Paris, London, and Manhattan...