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More than two thousand years Archimedes, Appolonius of Perga and many another famed Greek geometrician tried to divide an arc into three equal parts with ruler & compass. Three hundred years ago, René Descartes (1650), father of analytic geometry, proved the feat was impossible by means of the Greek instruments...
...majority of 64. The worst that could fairly be said against his Government was that he recently accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Raoul Peret when it appeared that many years ago M. Peret was the attorney of M. Albert Oustric, French swindler jailed last month. Senator René Héry of the Democratic Left who led the attack on M. Tardieu adroitly made the most of this...
...Married. René Lacoste, holder at various times of U. S., British and French tennis championships, expert golfer; to Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion French woman golfer, onetime holder of the British women's golf championship, expert tennis player, daughter of the Director & General Manager of the Bank of Indo-China; at Paris; after a courtship long prolonged by the groom's weak lungs...
...becoming a physically painful ordeal, canonized ten more saints. Two were Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, illustrious Jesuit, and Theophilus Da Corte. The others were the first North American saints, all martyred by Indians-Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Gamier (Jesuit priests), René Goupil, John Lalande (laymen) (TIME, April...
After electing Monsieur René Léon to be Managing Director for three more years, the Board voted a stockholders' dividend of 620 francs per share...