Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...LaFayette, both wrote voluminous political treatises which have profoundly affected the courses of their nations. Washington secretly, Bolivar openly mistrusted and despised the common people. Both often led ragged, ill-equipped armies. Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, Bolivar crossed the Andes in midwinter. Washington had German drillmasters, French troops to help him. Bolivar had a foreign legion of British and Irish veterans of the Napoleonic wars under the dashing General Simon B. O'Leary. Washington's insularity may have been due to the fact that he never left the U. S. Bolivar's internationalism...
...famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating...
Sous les Toits de Paris (Film Sonora Co.). This pleasant little film in French is arranged according to the 1928 formula of U. S. talking pictures - a formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl...
...Baton Rouge, La., was brought John Schenayder, 82, backwoodsman, charged with making whiskey. Speaking only French, John Schenayder pleaded guilty through an interpreter, said that he had been making whiskey 50 years, had never heard of the Prohibition law, did noi know that the Civil War was over...
...which Montagu Norman was a partner before he became head of the Bank of England. In Brown Bros, originated the Traveler's Letter of Credit. From the day when the first great foreign loan was placed in the U. S. in the form of a $500,000,000 Anglo-French issue, Brown Bros, have been the principal for all French loans. In Brown Bros. Wall Street office the son of many a prominent foreign banker learns U. S. methods...