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...Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
...Princess Juliana was impressed by these hints last week, the Court did not admit it. The 21st birthday passed without formal observance, by special request of H. R. H. Busy, bustling and housewifely (although no wife), she personally supervised the loading of her personal belongings into moving vans, sped after them in her unostentatious limousine to the Huis Ten Bosch. Standing in a vast, majestic park on the outskirts of The Hague, the ''House in the Wood" holds treasure which sedate Dutch Royalty values most-privacy...
When the service was over, Chief Chaplain Yates sped to his office, composed an answer, a rebuke. But as he wrote his ire diminished. He did nothing with what he had written. "I got my sentiments off my chest," he later explained, "and upon more sober reflection did not deem it necessary to add my voice to that of Dr. Pierce other than orally...
...Cabourg, tiny Norman fishing village, had seen the red taxicab and a mysterious grey limousine draw up by the shore. A man dressed as a gendarme and a woman in a tan coat had stepped out, carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman had been lying off the mouth of the Seine near Houlgate for several days, that it disappeared on Jan. 27. La Liberté demanded once more the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Russia, invited Parisians...
...week all Paris was agog with rumors that Prime Minister André Tardieu was seriously pondering whether to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Excitement grew when the private airplane of Sir Henri Deterding, Anglo-Dutch oil tycoon, arrived from London at Le Bourget and Sir Henri sped by motor to confer for two hours with M. Tardieu, then dashed back to his plane, flew home to London. Observers pondered the most widely believed explanation of Sir Henri's movements: he came at the request of M. Tardieu who wanted to know whether French consumers of certain...