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During the election campaign, ex-Premier Paul Painlevé, pacifist, academician, the man reputed to have favored pacifism during the War, yet took such delight in claiming responsibility for the appointment of le maréchal Foch to supreme command of the French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany...
...America, and four countries have made unusually large appropriations to defray expenses of their various athletes. There nations are Argentine. Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. Argentine will send several sprinters who have made very creditable showings this year, and Chile has distance runners who will press even our great De Mar, and the Finns. Sports in the South American countries are receiving much attention, and individual performances occasion unusual outbursts of enthusiasm throughout the various countries...
...latest work, The Chrysalis, depicting a young man emerging from the form of a gorilla, was refused admission to the current exhibition of the National Academy on the ground of lack of artistic merit (TIME, Mar...
According to Mrs. Lawton, the tobacco interests will probably continue to mar the landscape for some time. "The American Tobacco Company," wrote George W. Hill, Vice President, "is opposed to the idea...
...famed "father" of the French Catholics in Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...