Word: renger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day that the Senate approved the Italian debt settlement, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced that the American Debt Funding Commission would meet with the French Ambassador, Henry Bérenger, to resume negotiations for settlement of the French debt...
Meanwhile it was recalled that M. Bérenger is almost better known in France as poet, author and editor than as the man who made reports on "High Explosives," "Modern War Tactics," "The National Safety" and "Our Colonial Armies," during...
...well known that M. Bérenger was opposed from the first to M. Caillaux's program of attempting to deal with Secretary Mellon "in the manner of an actor defying his landlady." Now Ambassador Bérenger, Rapporteur Général du budget au Sénat, is supposed to be coming to present tactfully the books which show France's "capacity to pay," and with the intention of remaining in the U. S. until a settlement is reached based upon a mutual flinging of all cards upon the table...
...renger's optimistic, slightly "golden rule" philosophy of life was made known when he undertook to edit L'Art et la Vie, and later in a novel L'Effort. Mere "Effort" however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect...
Incidentally the "intellectual aristocracy" of Paris has long frequented the Salon of Mme. Bérenger, a charming daughter of the distinguished Delzant family...