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Most Americans learned in school that during the dark winter at Valley Forge, Washington was the near-victim of a cabal cooked up by Irish Expatriate and French General Thomas Conway, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, by the Adams cousins. Sam & John. Purpose of the plot was to replace Washington by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Washington's Cabal | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. Constance Bennett, blonde cinemanikin; from Henri ("Hank"), Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, lately a member of the French fighting forces; in Reno.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

There are also the love letters. After he has been unmanned Abelard writes Heloise: "It will always be the highest love to show none." Ninon de 1'Enclos propositions the Marquis de Sévigné.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Other People's Mail | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

On June 13, 1777 the Marquis de La fayette stepped ashore at Georgetown, S. C., to help the U. S. win its War of Independence. Last June, 163 years later-less one day-Lafayette's great-great-great-grandson (and therefore an honorary U. S. citizen before being born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Concrete Guy | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Amid a burst of flash bulbs at Hollywood's airport, hard-polished blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett embarked on a plane for Reno to divorce Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Gloria Swanson's and her third husband. She gave a farewell kiss to a squinting young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 14, 1940 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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