Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper publisher; of pneumonia; in Louveciennes, France. Like Napoleon, to whom he claimed distant kinship, he was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He built a small perfumer's shop, in which a brother-in-law gave him a job, into an internationally known organization. He published ten French newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated at $34,000,000, to his divorcing and suing wife, the onetime Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron, now publisher...
...Norristown, Pa., Mrs. Edward H. Le Boutillier told a court that her husband pursued a daily schedule of drinking. Starting at 6 a. m., he was drunk by midmorning, sober by lunch. The afternoon found him in his cups but by 6 p. m. he was back where he started. After dinner he began again, reaching a peak around bedtime. To a hospital for a year the judge sent Edward H. Le Boutillier...
...Thus Premier Doumergue went before the people on the general record of his stewardship, which is undeniably good. He left up in the air the specific failure of his Cabinet to clear up the Stavisky scandal which is still in the dawdling hands of its Parliamentary Committee. Convinced that le peuple blame chiefly the Committee and not himself, Gastounet left the microphone to begin his summer vacation. Next evening as he was about to catch the sleeping car for his wife's estate near Toulouse the Stavisky scandal blew up in Committee and excited Cabinet Ministers came tearing...
...recent weeks the Parliamentary committee investigating I'affaire Stavisky has glossed over even such startling admissions as one by Inspector Le Gall of the Sûrete (Secret Police) that "I would have had 99 chances out of a 100 to capture Stavisky alive if I had been allowed to." This strengthened public conviction that $30,000,000 Swindler Alexandre Stavisky was no suicide but was shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps...
That sent the statesmen scampering to stop Premier Gaston Doumergue before he could leave Paris for his vacation. "M. le President!" they panted at Gastounet, "your Cabinet is threatened. You must...