Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan. During the week Mr. Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League of Nations. In the authoritative Paris Temps, M. Le Senateur Victor Henry Berenger-who negotiated the unratified Mellon-Berenger Franco-U.S. debt settlement-wrote lyrically: "La Banque des Nations...
Assistance is given R. L. Hawkins '03. Associate Professor of French, in the publication of hitherto unpublished-letters existent in America, from Frenchmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. F. S. Cawley '10. Assistant Professor of German, receives a grant for the publication of an Icelandic Saga: and Walter Silz '17, also Assistant Professor of German, is aided in the publication of work on the German Romanticists...
...first and the latest American Ambassadors to France have both delighted Frenchmen. They like Myron Timothy Herrick, and they thought Benjamin Franklin was délicieux. Therefore Parisians were a-tiptoe with anticipation, last week, as the state-owned Théâtre de L' Odéon (second only in kudos to the Comédie Francaise) started rehearsing Pauvre Richard...
...Four Frenchmen are correctly addressed as "M. le President...
Last week the dream of a 3,000-mile sub-Atlantic railway seemed to grow ever so slightly less mad, as Britons and Frenchmen got down again to dealing seriously with their half-century-old project of driving a double-track tunnel under the English Channel, 21 miles across. In London the French Ambassador, popular M. Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau, officially declared at a dinner tendered him in the House of Commons, "When the British Government and the British Nation are ready to build the tunnel we will build it with them. We very much desire...