Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only Finland, Prince Edward Island and the United States are left groping in the dark of attempted prohibition of the use of God's gifts...
Hectic midnight was the hour of betrayal, if such it was. Earlier in the evening M. Daladier had set out to tell President Gaston Doumergue of his inability to form a cabinet of the "left." The Socialist party had just refused their support, and without them he considered the game was up. En route to the presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would...
...Crown Prince." At last the President of the Republic saw his way clear to call a would-be prime minister from the right. The numerically stronger but disorganized left had twice failed. It was time to summon the man whom former Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré? greatest statesman of the right?has been grooming as his successor for two years past at least. All France knows the long, rumbling name; André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu. He has two nicknames, first Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), second L'Americain?for snappy, humorless, combative André Tardieu is supposed to be "the most...
When General Lafayette romantically left France to help liberate the American colonies he brought with him a young man, Joseph Fouche, whose father was chief of police under Napoleon. The descendant of that young man is the Wilbur Burton Foshay who last week calmly agreed to the receivership of all his properties...
...described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke and he will laugh. Offer him an idea and he will develop it. Put him in the middle of a problem and he will begin to solve it. The doors of his mind swing easily ajar. That is why he left Exeter (1888) and Harvard (1892), to become a good reporter (and later, a good copy reader) on the New York Tribune. And why in 1902, he could bring order out of the chaos of an importing and exporting house which became Lamont, Corliss & Co. (agents for Cream of Wheat, Rainbow...