Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They brought their ship down at 2.37 P. M. EDT, eight hours, 27, minutes after their take-off at Le Bourget airport, Par- is, France...
...supporter of Andre Tardieu, one-time controller of some sixty deputies, is the man for him to see. Does this or the other piece of news need to be "interpreted"? He cannot do better than consult that powerful journalist, Francois de Wendel, who owns a majority interest in Le Journal des Debats, is the head of the group that in October, 1931 (jointly with the Comite des Houilleres, the coal cartel), purchased the semiofficial newspaper of the French government, Le Temps, controls the Journee Industrielle, and is a power in the management of Le Matin and L'Echo de Paris...
...goldfish-like life of the President of the U. S. bothers Franklin D. Roosevelt-less than it has many of his predecessors. Last weekend, however, he felt the need of some real privacy. Accompanied only by Mrs. Roosevelt, her friend Miss Lorena Hickok, his personal secretary Marguerite Le Hand, he boarded the Government yacht Sequoia and cruised down the Potomac to meditate on one of the Administration's major problems: how to get the wheels of heavy industry turning and employ the workers of heavy industry who in spite of PWA and NRA still remain idle...
...Robson, head of the London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named to inter the remains of the Wheat Conference...
...into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux. Finally Editor Calmette got hold of a letter that Minister Caillaux had written to the woman who later became his wife...