Word: jeanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exasperated, the Paris press in particular looked upon the action as little less than impudence and forthwith began a campaign look-ing .toward his recall. The French Government was constrained to ask its envoy in Moscow, M. Jean Herbette, to make friendly recommendations to the Kremlin to this effect. But the Bolshevik authorities remained deaf to the French request and dumb so far as M. Rakovsky was concerned...
...Jean Rodemich seems to have become a perenial fixture at the Metropolitan and this year he has improved only slightly. There is much less of his usual solo playing and he has found a fair supporting act in the Albertina Rach dancers...
Perhaps for the first time in history the Republican Party, George Jean Nathan, and H. L. Mencken are in approximate agreement. For some years ago, when the latter announced their platform as nominees for President and Vice-President of the United States, in Smart Set, they advocated that all living members of the Roosevelt family be sent to Leavenworth. It would seem that the big-wigs of the Grand Old Party to a man would wish at least one were safely there now, for Trotsky preaching Bolshevism on the White House lawn could scarcely produce stronger consternation or disapprobation than...
...some 20,000 American legioraries paraded in Paris, only 2,000 attended official functions and only two spoke officially. Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre. Doubtless aware that a large percentage of the legionaries in Paris last week were men who had not so much as got overseas during the War, Captain Piot wrote...
...Supreme Court; added 25 cents to Legion dues to support the American Legion Monthly; advocated Nov. 11 as a national holiday, "Armistice Day;" sent a cable of cheer to legionary James Joseph Tunney in Chicago; endorsed the Boy Scouts; bestowed the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal on Count De Jean of the French Foreign Office for his reception arrangements; chose San Antonio, Tex., for the 1928 convention...