Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First. Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France announced at Paris that Tycoon Owen D. Young had accepted a joint Allied and German invitation to sit on the new Committee of Experts as one of two U. S. members. This meant that the revised Dawes Plan will probably go down in history as the Young Plan. Among those who might object would not be Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. Just and modest, General Dawes has already said (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) that the original Dawes Plan was largely the work of one of his colleagues on the Reparations Commission, none other...
Since France is no longer a monarchy, the present dauphin or "crown prince" is?in political jargon?the man most likely to succeed stern, grizzled Raymond Poincaré as Prime Minister of France.* Just now Le Dauphin is by nearly unanimous consent M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu, called the "Most American of Frenchmen," brilliant, egotistical, dynamic, and holding the portfolio of Minister of Interior...
...credit-the $400,000,000 surplus war supplies of the A. E. F. in France. Promptly M. Klotz sold this credit-bought goods for cash. They brought so little that ever since France has been repenting his bargain. Today one of the chief perplexities of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare is how he is ever going to pay the $400,000,000 bill signed for M. Klotz, which falls due in September, 1929. The only alternative to paying this huge sum in cash is for France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France...
...grotesque entomological observation reported last week by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, U.S. scientist now working in the Argentine to improve local health: Certain night-flying moths there fly to the eyes of horses and suck the tears that their attacks cause. The same moths will settle on the skin of a sweating horse and drink at the salty perspiration. Hence, Dr. Shannon believes, the moths seek salt in the tears also...
Aware of this condition, the smartest of ballplayers, Tyrus Raymond Cobb* in company with George A. Putnam, Pacific coast baseball magnate, and Ernest C. Quigley, National League umpire, three months ago sailed from San Francisco to Japan. Last week having toured the country lecturing on baseball subjects at Keio, Waseda, Meiji and Osaka (four leading universities which, with a Japanese newspaper, paid for his trip) and having played nine baseball games in the capacity of first baseman, Ty Cobb returned with his party to San Francisco...