Word: petitiveness
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Died, Louis Loucheur, 59, French industrialist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak...
Marcel Mouillot was born in Paris in 1889 of petit bourgeois parents. Never having lived near the sea his great ambition was to be a sea captain. He fought through the War, emerged in 1918 seriously gassed. A Mlle Berthe Weill who ran a little gallery on the Rue Lafitte took him up. He had a little success, but made no money. Last year he had a chance to do the thing he had always dreamed of. He shipped on a freighter out of Marseilles for a cruise in the Indian Ocean. Four days out the ship was wrecked...
...Chamber was not in session last week, but French Deputies meeting on the boulevards over long amber goblets of Pernod asked each other who was ce petit bonhomme Tourenq who was raising such a riot in the Ministry of Finance. Dust from the Oustric scandal (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930) was still in the air. What, if anything, did small Tourenq know...
Married. Gladys Dupuy, daughter of the late Senator Paul Dupuy who founded Le Petit Parisien (world's greatest daily circulation) and Excelsior which is now managed ably by his widow, the onetime Helen Browne of Chicago; and Prince Guy de Polignac, scion of France's famed, aristocratic champagne manufacturing family; in the socialite Church of Notre Dame de Grace de Passy in Paris; by the Archbishop of Reims (champagne district). To View many a splendorous gift (a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun, family busts and miniatures, a Stradivarius violin for the bride who fiddles ably) came members of the beau monde?...
...Petit Cemetiere at Verdun, on the eve of Armistice Day, 1934, a crowd of tourists is gathered. As they drift away, one of their number remains. Darkness falls about him. In the increasing gloom a great voice is heard, promising that the 20-year-old prayers of the bereaved shall be answered, that the fallen shall be resurrected, permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy...