Word: res
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloch-Laine to head the French purchasing mission. He is no easy mark for U. S. salesmen-he began buying war goods as a member of France's U. S. mission in World War I. As member of the Paris banking house of Lazard Fréres, he also knows how business between the two countries is done in peacetime. No sooner had word of his arrival spread than eager agents began banging on his door at the French Line offices...
...Governor Duplessis-Bochard of Trois Rivieres, Canada, sortied too far from his stockade and lost his scalp to Iroquois. Last week one of the indiscreet Governor's most indiscreet descendants, another restless inhabitant of Trois Riviéres, Quebec's Conservative Premier Maurice Duplessis, lost his political scalp in an overwhelming rout...
...stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came back and hovered around Aubignane, then flew off towards the plains. After that the sun came out and, like a mouth, breathed warmth...
...Third Republic of France, in 69 years of sturdy life, has had 14 Presidents. Of these only five have served their full seven-year terms-Emile Loubet, Armand Falliéres, Raymond Poincaré, Gaston Dou-mergue. Jules Grévy. Six have resigned. Adolphe Thiers, Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train...
...from a loan his bank made to a firm reselling Government steel after the War (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937, et seq.). This year another judge ordered him to pay damages of $651,579 for selling at too low a price some oil lands belonging to certain Lazard Frères heirs in 1915-17. Although he has appealed both cases. Herbert Fleishhacker last week cited them in turning in his resignation. "I feel," said he, "that the best interests of the bank may be prejudiced by my serving as president. . . ." When judgments of $736,485 were returned against...