Word: iles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have watched all avenues of social acclaim for the appearance of H. I. H. Dmitri, Grand Duke of Russia, who you stated in TIME, Oct. 12, was booked on the S. S. Ile de France, for the U. S., sailing Oct. 16, same time Premier Laval came over. A few club women of this section desire the Romanov's whereabouts explained. We have been reading Grand Duchess Marie's Education of a Princess this summer, and cannot shake off the sensation of being sort o' responsible for her brother's comfortable, uneclipsed safety. That the sparkling...
...only were conferences informal, they were just about over. Emile Francqui, chief of the Katangans, departed for home. A. Chester Beatty, chairman of Rhodesia's important Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., said he was sailing Friday night; MM. Pisart & Gutt took passage on the Saturday sailing of the Ile de France. The conference looked like a failure. Then someone made a mysterious move and the foreigners stayed...
...Whisked back to Manhattan, Frenchman Laval was engulfed by French compatriots. Before he could sail on the S. S. Ile de France, the French Chamber of Commerce staged a banquet, roared "Vive Laval! Vive la France!" in thunderous approval of the Premier's parting words...
Ensued nearly ten years of neglect. Rust nearly did what the British Navy could not, but in 1926 the French shipbuilding firm of Penhoet at St. Nazaire, builders of the liners Ile de France, Paris and France, offered to rebuild her. The Turkish Government accepted on condition that the entire job be done in Turkey...
...Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge cabled to Camden, N. J. for fresh asparagus. Two crates were promptly shipped to him on S. S. Ile de France...