Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. D'Orsay Palmer, 24, grandson of the late Potter Palmer, Chicago hotelman (Palmer House); by Eleanor Goldsmith Palmer, daughter of a Sarasota, Fla.. truck driver, whom he married in Florida last year; in Paris. At the time of the wedding, 67 telegrams to county judges failed to halt the ceremony...
...France said nothing. Everything was ready for the great ratification meeting. Mr. Kellogg was on the high seas bound for Paris. The whole world was waiting to see whether the unprecedented treaty would actually be signed, when the wireless began to crackle. It was the Quai d'Orsay saying that if France was to sign, Morocco must of course stay at home with her lentils. To save his treaty, to prevent his great effort from being turned into a fiasco, Mr. Kellog consented...
That was all. But the Quai d'Orsay had in its despatch files Mr. Kellogg's consent to do as France wished in regard to Morocco. It was not literally an acknowledgment. But if France chooses to be subtle, as France usually chooses, the U. S. "open door" policy, for North Africa at least, is as good as dropped into the Seine...
Selected as the place to sign was the Clock Hall, on the Quai d'Orsay. Implements selected were the Havre pen, an inkwell once used by Minister to France Benjamin Franklin and French Foreign Minister Comte de Vergennes and a large single sheet of paper...
Married. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, 23, Chicago scion, grandson of the late socially famed Mrs. Potter Palmer; to Eleanora Goldsmith, 16-year-old high-school junior; of Sarasota, Fla. Telegrams sent to 67 Florida county judges by the Potter family failed to halt the ceremony; the eloping couple were married by a justice of peace at Fort Meade...