Word: taine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...
...hiring every mule and burro available, left Acapulco, leaving no means of transportation for the English Agent. Crossing Mexico, a steamer to New York was available, and the despatches of Prime Minister Judd reached England in advance of the Paulet des patches. England disavowed the action of Cap tain Paulet, and the English Admiral Thomas was sent to restore the Hawaiian flag, which ceremony took place in the plaza now known as Thomas Square. Mrs. Wilder's eldest son, G. P. Wilder, is a well known horticulturist, and has improved the Hawaiian mango. He and his wife have spent...
...received; when the ballots were counted the name of white-chinned Premier Raymond Poincaré led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...
When the spinsters heard further that hussy Poetess Lewys had received letters of congratulation from Marshal Pétain, War Minister Paul Painleve, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, the Poet-Ambassador of France to the U. S. Paul Claudel, they were but confirmed in the spinsterly opinion that...
Minnesota's Christianson arose to complain about the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling that national banks are federal agencies and therefore exempt from cer tain state taxes. His point was that na tional banks are operated for the benefit of stockholders and should therefore be taxed the same as state banks...