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Since then, RFC has turned down Andy's bid for New Orleans' huge Michaud plant, in which he planned to make boats; the Federal Housing Administration has shown little interest in his grandiose plan to make houses out of a new Higgins material, enameled steel & concrete. And the stockmarket has slumped...
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...some cases, incompetent. Naturally the French Government could take only one attitude toward such charges at the time, flat denial; but last week War Minister Paul Painleve said before the Senate Military Committee in answer to a question: "I cannot deny that the War Ministry holds General Michaud sufficiently responsible for the wiping out of the column under his command in Syria last year, to have withheld from this officer promotions which his career would otherwise have dictated...
When he found Nina Michaud, she fulfilled his deepest nature, gave him freely a rich love that was a whole way of life. But his ancestors poisoned his happiness. The more Nina was his, the less inclined he was to introduce her to his mother. The old Corsey servants were enough to remind him that she was only a poor artist's daughter, that she lived in the wrong part of town, that Cor seys had never paraded ? never thought of marrying! ? their mistresses...
When Nina Michaud came back to Chesterbridge?brimming with life, a celebrated sculptress, still single, with her grown son?she found them thus: John, the burntout editor of the Times, unbending before the new regime of upstart Jew manufacturers; Mildred, a proud, suffering, spent stranger in his house. John was able to make some amends to Nina. He abandoned his code to the extent of lying to get their Communist son out of jail. But neither Nina nor the boy really needed even that. They were self-sufficient. They loved him, thanked him and took their ways. John accepted...