Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Porter was privately rebuked by his colleagues for his crass behavior, was told that repetitions of such a scene would spoil the "goodwill'' of the whole junket. When the party reached Rouen where another banquet was served them, Mayor Porter had been coached in the art of responding to French toasts. Instead of stalking out, he lifted his champagne glass to his lips, did not sip, did not swallow...
...their families. Trenton's Donnelly, sick at sea, went straight to Paris to rest. Atlanta's Key was taken to the American Hospital in Paris with stomach trouble. Mrs. Gray, wife of the 78-year-old Mayor of Pasco, Wash, had to be carried to her Rouen hotel room...
Early Hearstian thrills became evident while the ship moored at Brooklyn. To hook the projected trip up with some-thing everyone knows, Jean Jules Verne, a staid public prosecutor of Rouen, France, imported for the occasion, was to christen Sir Hubert's submarine the Nautilus after the fantastic craft which ''Captain Nemo" sailed Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in Prosecutor Verne's famed grandfather's imagination. Readers were allowed to believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that...
...became known that when Sir Hubert Wilkins takes his old Navy submarine, rechristened the Nautilus, under the Arctic ice to seek a new way to the North Pole, there will be aboard one Jean Jules Verne, rechristener of the ship, a young Rouen lawyer, grandson of Author Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Said Jean Jules Verne last week: ". . . My grandfather's dreams are being realized in more ways than...
Industry throughout France's northeastern manufacturing area was paralyzed last week by a walkout of some 135,000 workers. Smoke rose from few stacks in the textile and metallurgical centres of Rouen, Amiens, Lille. Serious disturbance developed at only one point, Roubaix, close to the Belgian border. There 900 Belgian strikebreakers, being escorted over the line by police, were stoned. Twelve were injured...