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Swiftly the Premier collected the resignations of the members of his Cabinet, added his own thereto, drove straight to President Doumergue at the Elysée, and quit. For the second time within a fortnight France was without a Ministry (TIME...
...remarkable career to this point and, although he is now 60, he may or may not have a yet more remarkable career ahead of him. He comes of French stock. His grandfather, Constantino Cyril Desiré Pinchot, quit France "because of political beliefs. . . ." Gifford, born in Connecticut in 1865, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Yale College, where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done...
Some good natured " 'leggers" murmured to their fraternity brothers: "It's too bad about them. They were all right." Others snarled: "Cheest, you softy! They're trying to make you think they've quit, so they can nab you, sly like! The dirty, lousy bummers...
...QUIT: On June 30, / shall quit publishing Little Blue Books! Order till then...
...Madeleine's doings, said he thought she was a materialization of a 19-year-old girl who died in 1908. She was summoned, he explained, by an arrangement of red lights and phosphorescent screens, which went sailing around the room when she had begun to osculate. She was quit partial to a member of the Portuguese delegation (on the cheek), but often stayed with Delegate Thibault, for hours at a time...