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...power of the Right Centre coalition in the Chamber of Deputies whose leader is Premier André Tardieu, called "L'Americain" because of his go-gettishness. Looking for the next Premier of France, the nation shifted its attention from Paris-on-the-Seine 250 miles due south to Lyon-on-the-Rhone. Lyon presented a terrific sight...
...apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which promptly burst into flame. A little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined to succeed Right-Centreman Tardieu as Premier of France...
Disobedient and daring, the firemen refused to quit, though they knew that in Lyon's 1930 autumn landslide 19 firemen were killed. Roared Mayor Herriot: "Get back! Back all of you!" When this had no effect, the burly Mayor rushed in and climbed to the top of the ruins, placed himself in the post of maximum danger, bellowed: "Do you all want to be killed? Messieurs, I insist that you get back...
...written many books since on the long road that led him from the Professorship of Rhetoric at Lyon (1896-1904) to the Mayoralty (1906), which he has held, with one break, ever since, and twice into the office of Premier (1924-25 and 1926, the last time for only two days). To distract themselves other statesmen read. Edouard Herriot (like Winston Churchill) writes. Because he chanced to attend a Beethoven festival, M. Herriot is the author of a life of Beethoven. Because he loves the forests of Normandy he has made a rambling book out of his rambles there. Stimulated...
...Freshman baseball squad now consists of the following members: Pitchers: D. C. Braggiotti, J. F. Carty, H. M. Chapman, Jr., D. G. Lyon, Jr., W. A. Lincoln, D. H. Gealson, Ladd MacMillan, Martin Victor, F. E. Wood, Jr. Catchers: B. W. Engel, F. D. Moore, Huntington Thom, Arnold Weiner. First basemen: Alliston Boyer, C. S. Sargent, Jr., J. D. Stephen. Second basemen: C. E. Carr, R. G. Fletcher, Jr., D. A. Davis, H. F. Gillette, Jr., K. A. Miller. Third basemen: J. J. Gianino Dunbar Holmes, K. R. Kimball, C. D. Woodruff, Jr. Shortstops: J. A. Fitzpatrick, J. R. Haley...