Word: paix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three months will the horse chestnut trees in the Champs Elysees raise their white candles in the sun, yet last week on the Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix, spring had already come. The closely guarded private openings of the grand couturiers were over. Buyers who had paid $100 per opening apiece to attend (refunded on the first order) streamed from Paris with orders for their employers and tips for newshawks on the new fashions. French actresses had been given their pick of free gowns for the spring season and the salons were opened for humble citizens who might...
...winter overhaul. Largest, fastest, most luxurious ship on the Europe-to-South America run, the Atlantique was almost new, had made only ten Atlantic round trips. She boasted "The Only Street Afloat," a thoroughfare 450 ft. long in the ship's belly. Down this mimic Rue de la Paix wealthy Brazilians, Argentinians and Chileans have strolled to buy in smart ship shops every French luxury imaginable, including swank motor cars. Last week the fire, starting in an unoccupied first-class cabin, swept up to the radio room, roared down to destroy the Rue de la Paix with...
...money changer to confused U. S. soldiers in the Army of Occupation. Later he moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in larger quarters in the Rue de la Paix, where junketing U. S. citizens liked to watch quotations from the New York Stock exchange click up on his big board. For the investment business Banker Neidecker founded Neidecker et Cie. with branches at Geneva, Brussels, London, Buenos Aires. Manhattan correspondent for Travelers Bank is E. F. Hutton & Co. Last April Banker...
...Premier Laval, Foreign Minister Briand and a dozen other French officials and the staff of the German Embassy were all at the Gare du Nord clutching the silk hats of diplomacy. There were a few jeers, a few shouts of Vive La France! Many more cried hopefully, "Vive La Paix...
...Pullman did not reply. Then accepting the roses with a low bow, he said: "I would rather hear those words from you, Madame, than from the best qualified member of the National Assembly."* After the train steamed out, the crowd remained for some time, shouting "Vive Briand! Vive la Paix!" But even though news of this demonstration reached Geneva, no friend of cabinet rank was at the station except the Scotsman. "All That Is Best." It was said that M. Briand had come to Geneva only to preside as Chairman at the meeting of the Commission on European Union...