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...with which she could make the cash payment on a $15,500 house she had in mind as the nursery's headquarters. Then & there Mrs. Walrath's listeners-U. S. Gypsum's Sewell Lee Avery, Pure Oil's Henry Dawes (brother), Franklin MacVeagh's Rollin H. Keyes (since deceased), Carson Pirie Scott's Frederick Hossack Scott, Butler Bros.' Frank H. Cunningham-gave the necessary $1,000 each...
...Paris the incident was handled with finesse. There was no outburst by Premier Flandin against Emperor Power of Trinity. All the gory details were released, for their valuable effect in preparing the French mind for gory Italian work later in Abyssinia. Then French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin. who last month gave back to Tahitian girls their reputedly indecent pareus, announced that the massacring tribesmen were "nomads who have never been pacified," called Gobad an "occurrence incidental to colonial rule." To butchered young Administrator Bernard went, posthumously, by Premier Flandin's order, the tiny rosette of the Legion...
...kill their unwanted babies. The one prohibition that has really hurt the tourist trade has been that of taking monkey-toed Tahitian girls out of their pareus and putting them into cheap print dresses. Last week this matter reached Paris and French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin, a Parisian who has lately been preaching cooperation with the colonies, for the sake of French exports...
...decided that the Occident's spurious "Tahitian pareos" are far more indecent than the Tahitians' pareus. If socialites may wear the one on the beaches of Florida (see cut) the Polynesians may wear the other in the landscape it was made for. Brusquely last week Minister Rollin rescinded the regulation against pareus in Papeete...
...Things have now reached the stage," wrote Consul Rollin R. Winslow at Trieste, Italy, "where cream cannot longer be purchased for coffee, when eggs must be used sparingly, when cigarets must be purchased only on rare occasions, when threadbare clothing must suffice, and when any attempt to reciprocate social courtesies unavoidably received at the hands of local officials . . . is remotely out of the question...