Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several dozen Frenchmen decided last week that no stigma of default should attach to them. They would pay their share of the $19.000,000 which La Pa trie did not pay on Dec. 15 to les yanquis. Seizing paper & pencil they divided the 480,000,000-franc default by the population of France, 41,000,000, figured that each owed the U. S. between eleven and twelve francs (about 47?), popped this tidy sum into an envelope and mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their...
...sieu le Ministre! S'il vous plâit. What disposition shall I make of the gold which is ready pour les Etats-Unis...
...America's debtors are now involved. If the U. S. did not wish to concern itself with the problem of reparations, Mr. Hoover should not have become involved in it." But to M. Herriot blame and honor were not to be confused. Dramatically he reminded the Deputies of "Les Soldats Americains," raised his great voice in booming praise of those "who died for France at Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne." From this M. Herriot made a smooth transition to: "Messieurs! The Premier of France has come before you to ask you to honor the thing which...
...Les Club Gentlemen Maudits," the current French film, is to be given today and Friday in the new Geography Building on Divinity Avenue at the following times during the day: 2.30 o'clock, 5.30 o'clock, and 8.30 o'clock...
...indisputably French now, and much improved by the process. And so it is with the talkies. It is the essence of a French talking-picture that contains subtle refinements on the Hollywood craft which transforms the craft into something at least approaching an art. Such is the case with "Les Cinq Gentlemen Maudits" presented today and tomorrow by the French Talking Films Committee at the Geography Building...