Word: tinsmith
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eastern Locarno. Louis Barthou was born the son of a poor tinsmith. His family scrimped to pay for the education that turned him out a brilliant lawyer. All his life he has been a charmer, naturally eloquent, instinctively elegant, yet with plenty of brain power and force. His rise in the Chamber and through the cabinets of men now mostly forgotten was meteoric. In the year before the War he formed his first Cabinet and as Premier boldly forced through unpopular legislation lengthening the term of French military service. This gave la Patrie immeasurably better trained young men to shoulder...