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...Geneva Conference where he arrived as Premier, Foreign Minister and Chief French Delegate, darted zip back to Paris and again zip to Switzerland. No U. S. traveling salesman travels harder. Frenchmen (most of whom are only as busy as bees) call their hornet-premier "Tardieu I'Americain." Pals are Andre Tardieu and Pierre Laval. They may sooner or later cease to be pals, for French politics has a way of rupturing personal friendships.* But up to last week Senator Laval and Deputy Tardieu had kept the Premiership of France bouncing back and forth between them...
Naturally Pal Laval was shrewd enough to sugarcoat this unpleasant pill with a statement that Great Britain has five times more unemployed than France, Germany eleven times more, the U. S. 17 times more...
...Pal Tardieu was proud of having cut his Cabinet down to 13, proud of having rolled Army, Navy and Air into one Ministry of Defense.** Richer in gold than she has ever been before (see p. 17), France is now rushing to discreet completion the most powerful and most adroitly concealed chain of fortresses ever constructed since the world began. In the next nine months alone the new Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely...
...telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls.* William Bateman ("Tinplate") Leeds provided a fine funeral complete with a satin-lined casket at Scarsdale, N. Y., for Pal, a German shepherd dog killed in a dog fight. Hearst's Boston American quoted friends of youthful James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., son of Banker Stillman and Mrs. Fifi Fowler McCormick, as saying that after being graduated from Harvard Medical School in June, he will devote himself to free...
...outstanding painting of the show in our estimation is the lovely "Holy Family" by C. Pal Molnar. Vivid coloring, good composition, a modified form of cubism in technique, and a total lack of religious feeling mark this picture. A great and serene simplicity give this work a monumentality almost totally lacking in the other paintings...