Word: quai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special service commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of their church. The week-long observance might not have been remarkable except for the rank of some of those who took part, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to France Amory Houghton, and for the church's location: 65 Quai d'Orsay, Paris. Cabled the President of the U.S.: CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES AS YOU ENTER YOUR SECOND CENTURY OF SERVICE...
...Paris' Anglican churches or to the Episcopalian American Cathedral), in 1931 Dr. Joseph Cochran. a Presbyterian (now 90 and on hand for last week's celebrations), replaced the Rue de Berri church with a large Gothic church and a five-story community house on the Quai d'Orsay. When Presbyterian Williams took over in 1933, he busied himself learning the rituals of all Protestant sects, performs baptisms in any style except total immersion, calls in a Baptist missionary when this is required. Communion is an "open" service in which anyone may participate...
...test for Bourgés-Maunoury wfas his ability to form a Cabinet. Almost immediately he ran into trouble with the Catholic M.R.P., which declared it would not participate in his government but might be persuaded if the Foreign Ministry were given either to Pflimlin or that old Quai d'Orsay veteran and Catholic, Robert Schuman. If he made it, Bourges would be the youngest Premier of France in the 2Oth century...
...Quai d'Orsay dutifully denounced the book as "the highest fantasy." French officials denied only one specific-that Ben-Gurion had flown to France for a private pre-ihvasion talk with Mollet. Among the assertions not denied: that the day Israel invaded Egypt three French destroyers protectively patrolled Israel's coast, three squadrons of French fighters and fighter-bombers were at Lydda Airdrome, and a French-not an Israeli-destroyer, the Kersaint, played a leading role in the shelling and capture of the Egyptian warship Ibrahim Awal off Haifa...
March 12, 1932 was a raw, sunless day in Paris, and the city's restless tempo was slowed to a funereal rustle as Frenchmen filed into la Salle de l'Horlage at the Quai d'Orsay to stare at the bier of the illustrious pactmaker. Aristide Briand. All Paris seemed to be wrapped in a shroud of melancholy over the passing of the great democrat-all but a luncheon party of American. British and Swedish bankers who waited in edgy silence at the Hotel du Rhin to confer with an autocratic emperor of finance. "Match King...