Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent banker in France, M. Emile Moreau, has never held a post in a private bank. Last week the mere report that he had threatened to resign as Governor of the Bank of France caused consternation among politicians and appeared to have swayed the iron judgment of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare himself. The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis. To this problem M. Moreau brings strictly practical knowledge acquired during an entire lifetime spent in the Treasury and allied services, latterly as Director General of the State Bank...
Such unrepentant imposture, although common enough, was not practised last week in Paris, when a banquet consisting chiefly of horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three members of the famed Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar. The three, all by way of being gourmets, *were: Paul Painlev, mathematician, twice Prime Minister (1917; 1925); Minister of Agriculture Henri Queuille; and Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski...
Such serious scientists as Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed curator of reptiles at the N. Y. Zoological Park, and Miss Nellie Louise Condon, president of the Reptile Study League agreed with Dr. do Amaral. Salty sportsmen and story-tellers (Don Marquis, Owen P. White, Tex Rickard, Texas Guinan, Tex O'Reilly, William O. McGeehan) thought the Butantan biologist bigoted; suspected him of prohibition interests...
...glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant in a suit for a million and a quarter dollars filed by one Raymond H. Berry, lawyer, in behalf of five more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors, unto death. For these five there is no light in darkness except the glow of gold indemnity. Their malady is incurable. Eleven years ago, merry giggling girls...
...cruising lunchers were read messages from President Gerrit Fort of Raymond & Whitcomb (travel experts) and B. O. Foster of the Standard Oil of New York (Socony), delineating their plans to advertise New England's pleasures this summer. Immediately Major Patrick F. O'Keefe, redoubtable Boston advertising man cried out: "Let New Englanders stop talking about things and start doing them." Shouted the conferees: "Hey! hey! Hear! hear...