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...paid for the pageant) is that very rich man, with estates in Belgium, Italy and Morocco, who is better known as Monseigneur le Due de Guise. As the father of the bridegroom, Le Roi fixed his thoughts last week on 1809. In that year, in this same Cathedral of Palermo, his ancestor Louis Philippe (then an exile like the Count of Paris today) married a Bourbon Princess and later became King of France (1830-48). Does history never repeat...
...ropostale. In 1928 a plane of money-losing Compagnie Générale Aéropostale carrying a passenger from Morocco to Toulouse, flew into a severe storm over Spain. The pilot was pitched out of his cockpit and fell to death. The pilotless plane crashed, killing the passenger. Heirs sued for $20,000. Aéropostale argued that every precaution had been taken by government officials who inspected the planes and gave clearance for each departure. The storm, said the company, was clearly an Act of God. Last fortnight, the court ruled in favor of Aéropostale. Insisting that the company must...
...Legion's next big job, it seemed last week, will be in pacifying French Indo-China. Two thousand of the total Legion personnel of 14,000 have already reached Saigon, and more are being hurried thither from Syria and Morocco. In Paris last week was His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo-China, come at the urgent request of the High Colonial Council to discuss native unrest in his Far East bailiwick...
...world's largest annual professional gatherings?15,000 public school superintendents and teachers, members and associates of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association?assembled last week in De- troit. With them they had ten gold-lettered, morocco-bound volumes containing more than 4,500 tribute-letters to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry...
...view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...