Word: midi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politics, he is what may conveniently be termed a moderate radical, and thereby represents a traditional policy of he Midi (Southern France). For many years he has represented Nimes (Department of the Gard) first as Député and then as Sénateur. In a recent speech to "les enfants du Gard," thanking them for their support, M. Gaston said...
Quite naturally the men who are to direct the destinies of France were in the optic field of the concentrated eyes of the eame element that awaited the citation of the Government's credo. President Doumergue, who hails from the Midi (Southern France), found time to say that he was a bullfighting fan; he therefore becomes the bullfighting President. Corpulent Premier Herriot, who is fond of a pipe, sought momentary relaxation in a Bohemian cafe where he was found eating sauerkraut-a happy augury for better Franco-German relations-and he therefore became "the corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall the last pair of the Symphony Orchestra concerts for this season with Mr. Monteux taking leave of orchestra and audience. The program embraces Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator"; Debussy's "L'ApresMidi Midi d' un Faune" and the Overture to "Tanuhaeuser...
Locomotives. The fastest electric locomotives in Europe were put into operation on the Toulouse-Bayonne line of the French Midi Railroad and on the Paris-Orleans Railroad. The locomotives are of the new type on which tests have been conducted by the General Electric Co. and the American Locomotive Co., at Erie, Pa. (TIME, Dec. 17), weighing 102 tons and capable of reaching a speed of 105 miles an hour. The French roads have ordered more than $15,000,000 worth of such equipment, and the Mexican Railway Co., Ltd., ten electric freight units for mountain climbing. With...
...unusual notoriety from several sources. Not only does one find the usual items on the sporting page, such as reports of experiments with a lighter ball, but headlines shriek out that General Edwards is insulted by the tale that golf got him his high rank, and the Paris "Midi" asserts that "General Dawes failed to take golf into account" when he arranged his program for the reparations conference...