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Explaining, "Pertinax" went on to charge that Ambassador Herrick has been "so good a friend to France" as to have unwittingly deceived her statesmen by his own Francophility into th King that the U. S. would...
...perhaps to the dizzy height of 10?. To translate this hope into U. S. terms would be to say that a man who owned bonds worth $100,000 before the War now finds them worth $20,000 and hopes that they may rise to $50,000. Few U. S. statesmen would dare to say, in such circumstances, to one-sixth of the electorate: "Give up hope! Hereafter $20,000 will be the value of your original...
...these choice morsels began to appear in noble plentitude, the eyes of the Statesmen-Gourmets were observed to glisten with anticipation. Minister of Agriculture Queuille commented favorably upon both the aroma and the taste of his consomm. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski forked rapidly both saucisses and saucissons. Meanwhile good M. Painlev had consumed a second and then a third portion of the truffled donkey's liver...
Amid panic the statesmen-diners fled to the restaurant cellars. The students, tramping in through shattered windows, seized the restaurant piano, tables, chairs and chandeliers-flung all into the street for a barricade against the police...
Second: Of three U. S. businessmen called upon to be statesmen in the formation of the "Dawes Plan," two were G. E. Directors?Mr. Young and Banker Henry M. Robinson, of Los Angeles, California...