Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning after, however, Frenchmen began to take what they call their "logical" view. They still hoped to sell the U. S. billions of bottles of wine, brandy & liqueurs but they pondered Le Temps' reminder that "Mr. Hoover linked the question of debt adjustment to reparations; in disarmament he took important steps; and he favored on several occasions cooperative efforts between the United States and the League of Nations...
These three U. S. trends, all favorable to France, may "become stronger" under the new President, said Le Temps, "but Mr. Roosevelt, like Mr. Hoover will above all be President of the United States." Unfortunately, from the viewpoint of Le Temps, he will have to act "from the viewpoint of American interest...
Recently Deputy Leon Nicole, Socialist editor of Le Travail, published charges of graft and financial scandal in the canton government of Geneva. Swiss conservatives retorted that Deputy Nicole and his ally Jacques Dicke, a naturalized Russian, were really Communist agents in the pay of Moscow. They organized an anti-Communist mass meeting in Geneva's Community Hall. Editor Nicole urged his followers to break it up, then hold a protest meeting of their own in the Plaine de Plainpalais, the Union Square of Geneva. At this point hysteria seized Geneva authorities, who seldom have a riot to deal with. Troops...
...button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
...Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camélias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing angel-on-earth who gives up her life for a pure love. No more wan, pale or pathetic lady of the camellias ever crept the boards than Lillian Gish, who appeared last week in Manhattan in the Dumas classic...