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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another personage for whom the crush gave way was Marshal Joseph Joffre- "Papa" Joffre, just robbed of 50,000 francs and with water on the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Under Two Flags | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Good "Papa" Joffre was snoring. He has a touch of water on the knee, nowadays, and he tires easily. Therefore after a morning stroll in his Paris garden last week the beloved old Marshal climbed stiffly and painfully upstairs, sank with relief into a large armchair, dozed off and soon was snoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Poor Papa Joffre | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently, however, Il Duce has restored a mite of earthly authority to Il Papa (TIME, Feb. 18), and last week purring cinema machines proved how mountainous is the Pontiff's gratitude to the Dictator. Especially vivid and stirring were the footages showing Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice; Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin; and Cardinal Mam, Archbishop of Pisa, all of whom proceeded directly from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: 98 28/100% Pure | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Died. Sir Lomer ("Papa") Gouin, 68, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec; of heart disease; in Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied to Le Lion that he had already taken leave of Le Patron. French poilus called Foch Le Patron ("the boss") out of homage and respect, reserving the merely affectionate nickname of Le Papa for bumbling old Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Glory to Foch | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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