Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreasonable criticism of biased partisanship. The time has come for Congress to limit presidential administrations to one term of five or six years, and thus lighten the burden of presidential cares. Especially would this put an end to the undignified spectacle of our President's "electioneering" rôle every four years, and make this great office one of genuine dignity and high service, devoid of many imperfections that at present mark our Presidents as martyrs to an antiquated system...
Emile Zola's "Le Reve," the next motion picture to be presented under the auspices of the French Talking Film Committee, will be shown on Thursday and Friday, January 26 and 27, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, it was announced yesterday by Mrs. E. K. Rand, chairman of the committee. The picture, which is adapted from Zola's masterpiece, has been one of the most popular pictures in France during the past year...
Since 1929 three other notable French ships have been damaged or destroyed by fire: the luxurious Paris, damaged while lying passengerless and crewless at her pier in Le Havre in August 1929; the ancient Asia which burned and sank while carrying Moslem pilgrims to Mecca (TIME, June 2, 1930); and the brand new Georges Philippar, burned and sunk at sea last May with a loss of 52 lives while returning from her maiden voyage to the Orient. Since French Indo-Chinese Communists had openly threatened the Georges Philippar, suspicion of incendiarism was reasonable, but the French Government, though it investigated...
...after the Atlantique's hulk reached Cherbourg last week fire broke out at Le Havre aboard the 22-year-old France, recently withdrawn from trans-Atlantic service by the French Line as "too old." Le Havre firemen dashed aboard at 2:30 a. m., put out the blaze after two hours of smart work. At Saigon in French Indo-China the French liner Angkor was held up by a cracked propeller blade...
...children, whom he left behind in Brussels last week as he started a tour of the Western Hemisphere to lecture. Mme Piccard, grumping bitterly over the interruption of her home life, and two of their five children accompanied him to Paris, through the gritty tunnels of Normandy to bleak Le Havre, waved forlornly as a big liner carried their hero down the barren harbor toward the vast Atlantic. Last they saw of him was his long arms gyrating, the wind blowing his wild hair crazily...