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Both teams struggled to make any shots at thestart of the second half, but Harvard found itsrhythm and pulled away down the stretch. Millerand Feaster scored the Crimson's first 17 pointsin the second period to put Harvard ahead...
Next morning the good doctor left Vimoutiers, never to return or be heard from again-but the curd he had started fermented after him. Two years later a statue of Marie Harel, or someone who was supposed to be Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good...
Died. (Etienne) Alexandre Millerand, 84, onetime President of France (1920-24) ; in Versailles. Son of a wine merchant active in the Commune of '48, he made a reputation as a defender of labor, became the first Socialist Cabinet member...
...Republic of France, in 69 years of sturdy life, has had 14 Presidents. Of these only five have served their full seven-year terms-Emile Loubet, Armand Falliéres, Raymond Poincaré, Gaston Dou-mergue. Jules Grévy. Six have resigned. Adolphe Thiers, Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned...
Former President Millerand has been its legal defender; former President Doumer was a director of one subsidiary; present President Albert Labrum is a former director of another. So--most significantly of all--is former Premier Andre Tardieu, great leader of the Right. There was no stronger influence upon former Premier Poincare in his occupation of the Ruhr than the Comite; the present agitation over the Saar Basin springs from its headquarters. It is governed by a commission of directors, and upon this commission, as President (we must now displease another lover of anonymity), there sits the misty and cloud-wreathed...