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Swart, stocky Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Châteldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When...
...beginning of the book, Albert Grope is going to board school while his widowed mother chars, washes, mangles (irons). He gets a job with a butcher and is discharged. He gets a job with a second-hand bookdealer and out of his savings, when the dealer dies, sets up his own shop. Presently he branches into the advertising business and this sideline is so profitable that he soon has a factory and a fat income...
What the Gibara filibusters forgot was that it was occurring in 1931. Machado's tough little army is not like "Butcher" Weyler's ill-equipped Spaniards. There are railroads in Cuba now, a well-paved 715-mile motor road stiffens its backbone. And Machado's troops are loyal. The hard times and unemployment that have turned 90% of the country against him, in sympathy at least, keeps every one of his well-paid, well-fed soldiers toeing the mark. Within five hours Federals were moving against Gibara, by land, by sea, in the air. The filibusters...
...political concessions from Germany which no German Cabinet could accept and remain in power? The world press seemed definitely anti-French last week. French editors received a little of the scorn they have heaped on the U. S. these many years, and it stung. Swarthy Premier Pierre Laval, the butcher's son who gave up extreme Socialism to be a disciple of Tardieu and Briand, complained...
...tiently, tirelessly, Premier Pierre Laval explained and re-explained to the Chamber that President Hoover delivered no "ultimatum" to France. Repeatedly the alleged "abrupt" and "threatening" character of the President's proposals was flayed by Deputies. When Premier Laval, looking more than ever like a red-faced, perspiring butcher, soothingly observed, "Mr. Hoover has even sent Mr. Mellon to Paris," irate Deputy Franklin-Bouillon snapped: "The presence of Mellon is not an argument...