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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days before, Messieurs les Deputes had started to talk about lace and automobiles. French lacemakers have had a hard time, of it for the past five or six years. Fashion has shunned their stuffs. Last Spring with the return of long skirts and softer, more feminine lines, lace came back. French lacemakers rejoiced. But their hopes were dashed by the publication fortnight ago of the new U. S. tariff. Lace, embroideries and tulle, depending on quality, are saddled with a duty of from...
After a full week of Olympic parliamentary games, Messieurs les Deputès abruptly quieted down to the Young Plan, passed it by the overwhelming vote of 530 to 55 in a comparatively placid session, sent the Plan to the Senate where it is sure to pass...
Article 14 of the Covenant, according to Les Liberté, gives France and Italy the right to settle their disputes in the Mediterranean. It is, however, suggested by Leon Daudet that parity be granted both Italy and France in the ratio o; three to one, so that any deep differences between the two Latin sisters may be settled on such basis; that is, three Italians to one Frenchman at the bottom of the Mediterranean. This because of the difference in the birthrate between the two nations...
...twelve, Mei Lan-fang, grandson of a great actor of the '50s, made his own debut as a tan (female impersonator). The impersonation of women is perhaps the greatest branch of Chinese acting, for women are not permitted on the stage.* Mei Lan-fang plays women's rôles entirely. He is president of Peiping's Actors' Association and his superiority in his calling is unquestioned...
...many rumors have been current in regard to the Memoirs of Georges Clemenceau, "Les Grandeur et Miseres d'une Victoire," which he was writing up to the time of his last illness that French officials and two members of the French Academy have examined the work and have signed a document in regard to the state in which Clemenceau left it. The ex-Premier's son, Michael Clemenceau, has just sent this document to Harcourt, Brace and Company who will publish the book, uncensored, in America under the title "Memoirs of a Victory". The document states that the work...