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...Unkindest was the cut of L'Echo De Paris's famed "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud): "Mr. Hoover who is perhaps within a few months of political ruin ... is sticking at nothing to restore his fortunes." Japanese editors also struck the sour note that the President's proposals were mere electioneering. Icy and astute, Sir John Simon steered the British Press away from this cheap and ineffective sneer by summoning to his hotel all the British correspondents in Geneva. "I implore you," he said, "to give no emphasis to the possible bearing of Mr. Hoover's proposals on the coming presidential election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: President Proposes | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...amusing," sneered Pertinax, pungent Paris publicist, "that America, thinking of its naval aircraft carriers, took care not to insert bombing planes in the list of offensive arms to abolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stimson Musee | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

July: M. Laval signed the Moratorium Accord after negotiations at the French Foreign Office with Statesman Stimson and Secretary Mellon, "to which Briand was brought in like an aged grandmother whom it is desired not to leave out of the family festivities," as venomous "Pertinax" remarked in L'Echo de Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man of the Year, 1931 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Wrote André ("Pertinax") Geraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Insane Hopes | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Andre Geraud, known in the Echo de Paris as Pertinax: "The American bankers were extremely exacting about the terms of the issuance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oversubscribed | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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