Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade your ignorance, Messieurs!" said M. Francqui, irate. "Even as a Minister of the Belgian Crown I have never accepted a centime for service to my country...
...Committee, co-representative of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan. During the week Mr. Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League of Nations. In the authoritative Paris Temps, M. Le Senateur Victor Henry Berenger-who negotiated the unratified Mellon-Berenger Franco-U.S. debt settlement-wrote lyrically: "La Banque des Nations is as necessary now as national banks were a century ago, for nations have become mere provinces. If bankruptcies and ruin, which have followed the years...
...House of Commons an attempt to pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...
Below stairs in the dignified stone mansion of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, a group of Paris reporters completed, last week, their second month of fidgeting and fuming. The first month was the hardest. It climaxed in a duel between M. Georges Chapreau and M. le Marquis Henri de Sombrieul, both star reporters, who had rasped each other's nerves. However, since le Marquis fired into the ground, and M. Chapreau into the air-as Frenchmen will -the shots served happily to steady the nerves of all concerned. Last week the corps of reporters five was informed by the corps...
...Minister, Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn.; 2) from the city of Oslo, a set of books by Norwegian authors; 3) from the city of Stocknolm, a diamond tiara of 956 stones; 4) from the Norwegian Society, a Grand piano, especially requested by Princess Märtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian Government, a silver punch bowl; 7) from the Norwegian Storting a pair of silver candlesticks and probably an increase in Crown Prince Olaf's yearly civil list from...