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Counting, the United Press claimed that M. Laval smoked 80 U. S. cigarets a day, mostly Old Golds, smokes 40 Régie Marylands a day in France...
...Lunch en route to Washington Père Laval ate in his private car, permitted Daughter José to table d'hôte in the public diner...
...Keeping the air blue with a fresh U. S. cigaret every ten minutes, Premier Laval was asked,. "In France do you smoke the Régie?" (Government monopoly cigarets...
...White House, where Premier & daughter made their initial call at once. Host Hoover in the Blue Room was so eager to plunge into business with Guest Laval that an aide had to wrinkle his brow and beckon to the President. Thus reminded of Mrs. Hoover's existence in the Red Room, the President led the Lavals thither, presented them...
...Eighty-five men, no women, were White House banquet guests that night. In the State Dining Room, President Hoover was the big centre nail of the horseshoe table. On his right Premier Laval, left Ambassador Paul Claudel of France, nearby Marshal Pétain. A large assortment of bigwig publisher-editors included Arthur Brisbane, who wrote in his next Today: "Who sees only 'peasant ancestry' in the face of Laval would see only a peasant woman in the Mona Lisa face. . . . Don't play poker with him. . . . The President looked weary...