Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LIFE A LA HENRI?Henri Charpentier & Boyden Sparkes?Simon & Schuster...
First lucky fellow to taste a Crepe Suzette was Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. Moved to the ecstasy of inspiration by the presence of gourmandizing royalty, 14-year-old Assistant Vaiter Henri Charpentier of Monte Carlo's Cafe de Paris did things to French pancakes that had never been done before, served the kingly dish in a blaze of spirits. Edward's princely palate was pleased; he asked Henri to name the concoction after a friend's little daughter who was lunching with him, sent him next day a jeweled ring, a panama hat, a cane...
...make the Germans forget their own class warfare--to weld them into one united family. Elsewhere we are informed that the Nordic-Teutonic stage business is to cover the plan to forge northern and central Europe into a self-contained economic confederation. See the Rosenberg plan in Ernst Henri's book "Hitler Over Europe...
...present this alternative in an appropriate atmosphere, Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar of Belgium succeeded in assembling at Brussels last week a conference of the entire Gold Standard Bloc: France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Poland. The Poles had at first refused to attend. At the last minute Warsaw got wind that Paris was prepared to make handsome concessions all round to keep the Bloc on gold. In a wild scramble a "Polish Delegation'' to the Brussels Conference was hastily recruited at the Polish Legation in Brussels...
...Conference rose, promising to reassemble within three months, Belgium's Henri Jaspar rubbed his hands in satisfaction. The Netherlands' delegates on their way home were pained to hear that a Netherlands Society for Managed Currency had just been formed to get Holland off the gold standard "by all the legitimate means at its disposal...