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...Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have his captains and kings departed but that their tumult was a weary gibberish, hardly destined to outlive them. Bravely he concludes that they had "a common touch of frustrated nobility ... of genius," that...
...foreign exchange speculators to tag as franc raiders, expelled one luckless Pole from the country as an example, discussed innumerable measures for the "defense'' of the franc, hoped it could pass on to the incoming "Popular Front" the unpleasant task of actual devaluation. Cried Finance Minister Marcel Régnier: "So long as I am Finance Minister there will be no measures restricting the gold standard. . . . We have ample reserves for our defense and the Bank of France possesses every means of action needed...
...Eighteen of the 23 Cabinet members were up for reelection. None was defeated outright, but at least four, Air Minister Marcel Deat, Minister of National Education Henri Guernut, Minister of Justice Yvon Delbos and Undersecretary for Technical Education Jules Julien, will have to stand the embarrassment of a runoff...
...Philadelphia Orchestra there are two onetime army officers who fought on opposite sides during the War. Both are first violinists. One is Hungarian George Beimel, the other Russian Yasha Kayaloff. Flutist William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg...
...John Brown's Body," by Stephen Vincent Benet; David P. McAllester'38: "The Congo," by Vachel Lindsay; Robert Dunn '37: "Justice,: by Kuo-Hsiang Wu; William H. Ledgard '36: "The Death of the Hired Man," by Robert Frost; Edwin K. Packard '37: Selection from "The Children's Crusade," by Marcel Schwob...