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...succeed that fabulous Deputy M. Philibert Besson, who for years spent most of his time annoying French policemen and escaping arrest on his motorcycle (TIME, Dec. 23), Philibert's old constituency of Le Puy has sent to the Chamber astounding Deputy Félix Archer...
...Archer not only advocates the creation of an international money to be called "europa," but has had some of it printed and spends it successfully in Le Puy, where shopkeeper constituents have faith in Felix. In some respects a highly skilled and intellectual man of "Brain Trust" calibre, Deputy Archer has to his credit the invention of several models of quick-firing French cannon esteemed by the Army...
What have endeared M. Besson most to the voters of Le Puy in central France are his hair and his temper. On the Besson skull, hair grows only in two patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...
Most of his campaign speeches have been made from the branches of trees or clinging to lamp posts. Thirteen times the voters of Le Puy have elected him either their Municipal Councilor or Mayor. The fourteenth time (1932) they sent him as their Deputy to Paris where he continued his habit of making long speeches at the drop...
...creditably. . . . The President is a lusty player. His specialty is catching high ones and throwing them in hard-to-get returns. . . . Dr. Boone, the President's physician, is small, dark, quick as a flash. . . . Mark Sullivan, journalist, plays a hard game." Author of the article: William Atherton Du Puy, press agent of Dr. Wilbur's Interior Department...