Word: rale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Suretè Gènèrale on the Rue des Saussaies, Gestapomen had tortured prisoners with near-freezing baths, electric currents, beatings. Scratched on the walls of cells: "Long live eternal France! . . . Never confess ! . . . My God, I have confidence in Thee...
...friends, but one of his best, oddly enough, is that other able professional, Marshal Pietro Badoglio of Italy. On his 55th birthday General Gamelin married. He and his wife, who is as neutral-toned as her husband, have no children. Madame la Générale enjoys going to maneuvers...
...French Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labor) represents 5,000,000 enrolled trade unionists and is headed by Léon Jouhaux. who last year held important negotiations in Moscow with Soviet Trade Union heads. The Confederation retorted last week that the program of Radical Socialist Daladier is "admissible only in a fascist regime. . . . The C. G. T. will know how to take measures for its defense...
...first of his works were volumes of poetry. The whole sum of them was dwarfed by the 1,224-page Anthony Adverse, rale, 900,000 copies, His Action at Aquils just out, the row of Hervey Allen books on the shelf in his Maryland farm now totals fourteen. his membership in college fraternities totals two, Sigma Chi and Omicron Delta Kappa...
Most vexed was paunchy old Léon Jouhaux, longtime French trade union superboss. On paper his Confédération Générale du Travail (General Labor Confédération) "represents without political leanings all workers aware of the struggle to make final the distinction between the employer and his employes," to quote its grandiose Charter. Strictly speaking, "Papa" Jouhaux had been supposed to represent the great bulk of employes in French large-scale industry. Soon after the new Cabinet took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided...