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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Doumergue drove from the Palais d'Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe at the top of the Champs Elysées. Here, in the presence of the Ministers, he deposited a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Poilu, instead of attending the usual military revue...
...BOBBED HAIR MAKE BALD WOMEN ? YES! It was announced that Mr. Macfadden had bought the plant of the old New York Evening Mail, there to publish a tabloid daily newspaper featuring material along the lines of True Stories and Physical Culture. It was understood that this sheetlet, as yet unknown by name, would make no attempt to compete with other Manhattan papers in the presentation of news...
...more easily translated morceaux choisis is a list of mourners whom the ex-President has requested to attend his funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
Spleen. Following the address by Dr. Crile, Dr. William J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn., told the assembled surgeons of the present status of knowledge regarding the spleen. The exact function of this organ is even yet unknown, but it seems to be intimately associated with the manufacture and destruction of the elements of the blood and is therefore very important in relation to certain diseases of the blood...
...Summer, it becomes more and more apparent that American business will not really get its bearings until the political conventions are over, and until the results of the Fall's election as far as they will affect trade can be intelligently fore cast. With the Democratic candi date still unknown, both "platforms" yet unannounced, and the seriousness of La Follette's third party gesture not clearly determined, a tone of hesitation in the markets is quite natural...