Word: laval
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...announcement three weeks ago that three volunteers were allowing themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes to test whether the insects were the cause of St. Louis' encephalitis epidemic (TIME, Sept. 25): publication of the heroes' names- Dr. James Payton Leake, director of the investigations; Dr. Louis Laval Williams Jr., authority on the transmission of disease by insects; Dr. Bruce Mayne, English-born expert in malaria research. St. Louis Health Commissioner Joseph Francis Bredeck declared the epidemic over. Toll since July: over 1,000 cases, 194 deaths...
...difficulty in working her way into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior. As for Clarissa, she joined the flea circus, made a trip to Washington on Premier Laval, died, in a blaze of typically Fiskean capital letters, when "She tried to come between two HAPPY LOVERS...
Beyond his own shores he would find no new name that had skyrocketed into world consciousness during the twelvemonth. Mahatma Gandhi, 1930's Man of the Year, is still a prisoner of Britain in the Poona jail and his Indian followers are quiescent if not quiet. Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, was swept out of the premiership of France last February, is today only a Senator without portfolio. The May elections put Edouard Herriot into power for six months but fortnight ago he and his Ministry went crashing out on the issue of paying...
...mere chance Citizen Herriot picked up a copy of the 1932 budget which passed the Chamber under Premier Pierre Laval last February and passed the Senate under M. Laval's successor Premier Andre Tardieu. Thumbing through this ancient document-which dates from before the death of Aristide Briand (TIME, March 14); before the French general election which made M. Herriot premier; before the assassination of President Paul Doumer and the election of his successor President Albert Lebrun (TIME, May 16) -thumbing through the hoary pages of the bygone budget, M. Herriot came upon an item...
Useless to ask questions of the man who drew up the budget! He, debonair M. Francois Pietri. Minister of the Budget in the Laval Cabinet, not only forgot-believe it or not-his handiwork completely but rushed to Premier Herriot's aid in the Chamber debate fortnight ago, delivered an elegant harangue asking his fellow Deputies to "vote this payment for the honor of France...