Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week at the National Singles Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, Long Island, William T. Tilden II tried for a record. He tried to match William A. Larned's list of seven national championships. Tilden has six. Last year Henri Cochet of France robbed him of his chance to tie R. D. Sears's record, seven successive championships; Rene Lacoste be- came 1926 champion...
...last week, Rene Lacoste and Henri Cochet, French by blood, birth and habit, accustomed to wining with their meals, to puffing tasteless "Maryland" cigarets, to dissipating as only a French gourmet can?these men won the world's highest tennis honors from hardy, ascetic...
...Poincare, who is also Minister of Finance and cousin of the famed mathematician, Jules Henri Poincare, took over the control of French finances last year (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). At that time, with the franc daily plunging to new depths, the amount the state owed the Bank of France stood at 38,350,000,000 francs - 150,000,000 francs under the newly constituted limit, previous Finance Ministers having raised the loan limit to keep pace with the printing presses...
Spectators were sorry thus to see all the young men go down before all the old men. The day before, the young men had swept the French menace from the tournament, Hennessey and Williams defeating, unexpectedly, Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste; Lott and Doeg defeating, also unexpectedly, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon...
This said, Sir Henri hastened from London to Paris where last week, he held a private confabulation with his good friend Walter Clark Teagle...