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Trusty Hoover helpers who scampered sweltering around Paris day & night, popping in now upon Premier Laval, now upon Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and now upon "the Old Tomcat of the Quai D'Orsay," slumberous, feline Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, included notably a youngster and an oldster...
Breaking Through. Goading President Hoover, Tomcat Briand, Secretary Mellon and Premier Laval to efforts which finally succeeded was the desperate state of the German Reichsbank last week...
...specialist in microscopic anatomy at the University of Oklahoma records an experiment which should be of considerable advantage to your correspondents who are worried over dogs charging and sniffing through their shrubbery. It is much more scientific and sure-fire than the ruse of the "fierce yellow tomcat" (TIME, Feb. 2). Since employing this means in one local grocery store, baskets of apples, potatoes, etc. have been displayed with complete immunity from attack...
...minor issue, but they had also grown sick and tired of the sound and sight of him. Sighs of relief stirred the sultry air as the Government's defense was taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning, sonorous orator. Whereas M. Poin-caré had piled the Chamber's rostrum mountains high with notes and documents, shrewd B'rer Briand with a droll little gesture laid one of his visiting cards on the stand before him and commenced...
...flouted by Minor Nations than during the proceedings which ensued. The Powers were represented, of course, by the Big Five: 1) Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain), supercilious to correspondents but ready with a queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling decisiveness the great Duce; 5) Baron Adachi (Japan), frail, insignificant in stature, piping voiced, yet with a winning and decisive mien...