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Word: tissiers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Kill him! Kill him!" screamed citizens of Bayonne last week as Manager Gustave Tissier of their Crédit Municipal was hustled for questioning to the prefecture. Shocked friends recalled that only recently he was proposed for the Legion of Honor. Now police were saying that Manager Tissier had given jewelry left in pawn to his pretty friend. Impossible? Mais non! Soon grim detectives from Paris were staggering Bayonne with the assertion that Manager Tissier and his handful of jewels were not the point. They claimed, after a hasty rummage through the Crédit Municipal's books, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pride in Pawn | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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