Word: tardieu
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Canadian farmers wondered, hoped, that Mr. Bennett had been able to give General Manager McFarland some good reason for saying that he is not going to be a "Liquidator," but rather a Star Statesman. Across a wine-set banquet table Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France said last week to the World in general and to Prime Minister Bennett of Canada in particular: "Friendship between Canada and France is a long established fact of which there is no question...
...read, too. the weekly advertisements of New York's Vineyardists Inc. offering to come with juice into the client's home and there make guaranteed, "strictly legal" champagne, or any of several other wines. Acting on what they read, the French winemen strongly petitioned Prime Minister Andre Tardieu last week, asked him to ask the Hoover Administration through diplomatic channels whether it is legal, for sure, to make wine in U. S. homes and, if so. whether there could be any possible objection to making French wine there...
Pierre Roy is fiftyish, stocky, wears pince-nez and a very neat toothbrush mustache. Educated in England, he still buys his clothes there, is seldom seen without his bowler hat, yellow gloves and tightly rolled umbrella. M. Roy is completely bilingual and looks not unlike Premier André Tardieu. He has more over attained the nirvana of the French bourgeoisie, he is a rentier and need never paint a stroke, could live quite comfortably on his inherited income...
Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last week in Paris, their centennial enthusiasm undiminished, President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister André Tardieu clapped on their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed...
...morning of the celebration, to the huge amusement of Socialist deputies and editors, Prime Minister Tardieu had had a long interview with the military commander of Paris discussing precautions that must be taken to prevent any Communist demonstration on Aug. 1. A trifle tartly M. Tardieu explained the subtle difference between the revolutionists of 1830, whom he delighted to honor, and the revolutionists of 1930 whom he was eager to suppress...