Word: rh
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Lyon there stand as monuments to 25 years of zealous labor by Mayor Herriot four modern bridges across the Rhóne, a post-War program of public works put through at a cost of 50,000,000 francs, and the annual Lyon Fair, raised by Mayor Herriot from obscurity to rank with Germany's famed Leipzig Fair. As a "Good European" (which everyone calls M. Herriot) he placed under his personal protection the German goods exhibited at the Lyon Fair of 1914, defied efforts by the French Government to confiscate and sell them. After the War he returned...