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Stirred by the story of how beloved Marshal ("Papa"') Joffre saved Paris with the aid of Galliéni's improvised ''Taxicab Army" and flung back the Germans from the Marne, more than 4,000,000 U. S. schoolchildren gave nickels, dimes and quarters to pay for the Marne Victory Monument first presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador...
...Diarist Galliéni's "Taxicab Army" came in handy, there were only 600 taxicabs and they carried in two trips only one of the 56 Allied divisions then opposed by 44 German divisions. Galliéni, whom the French Cabinet had left behind as Military Governor of Paris when they tied to Bordeaux, received scant official thanks for his astuteness at the Marne, incurred Joffre's enmity, was forced out of active command and died at Versailles in 1916. But merit triumphed. On April 21, 1921, to the rapturous delight of Paris, dead General Galliéni...
...chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention of nostrils, the buyers make their bids known and slowly the auctioneer sways down the room until every stack is sold or else withdrawn by a farmer who thinks he can fetch...
...annual "tobacco break" was again taking place. Highways were filled with trucks and wagons, crowds jammed into the warehouses. Their crops reduced by abandoned acreage, drought and insects, the growers were delighted when the chanting did not stop at the "ay-ay-ay'' of eight or the "ni-ni-ni" of nine. Average prices varied from 10? to 13? against 4? to 6? last year. Despite their poor crops, most farmers fared better than in 1931. All the big companies making 15?-packages of cigarets were actively in the market. They hoped higher prices for tobacco would discourage...
...gentlemen. They return with nasal voices, a vast vocabulary of U. S. slang and little regard for discipline. When given an order by a teacher, instead of a polite "Ta go mait," or "Deanfaid me e," they answer: "I gotcha, boss." Skepticism is not expressed by a simple "Ni creidim e," but by a derisive "Oh, yeah?" or "Sez you?" When school is dismissed all the children rise and lustily shout: "Scram...