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Though sport fans mourned his doing so, the onetime Tiger Man went ahead with his "comeback" plans. Though far from broke (he had no direct interest in the Jack Dempsey Restaurant which recently folded in Manhattan), enough of his funds are tied up in the Jack Dempsey Broadway Bar, the Dempsey Distilling Co. and other projects so that he can use $3,000 to $5,000 cash, to be picked up-along with publicity— from a small-time fight now & then. His next opponent: Bull Curry, a Hartford (Conn.) policeman who "has done a little wrestling...
Made to Take. "I shall fight in front of Paris, in Paris, behind Paris," swore France's old tiger, Georges Clemenceau in 1914 when German artillery rumbled 17 miles away. "We shall defend every stone, every clod of earth, every lamppost and every building," declared an official French spokesman last week...
...that the British were about to withdraw, as they had from Norway, with their host's Army covering their rear. Certainly his surrender forced their immediate withdrawal. But it was an orderly withdrawal with the wounded sent first; a courageous, masterful rear-guard action conducted by General Lord ("Tiger") Gort in full cooperation with the French...
Fulfilling his promise to change methods and men, the Premier, emulating Georges Clemenceau, the "Old Tiger" who, almost singlehanded, organized victory in the last war, took over supreme civil and military power. To Maxime Weygand, the great Foch's Chief of Staff and "Savior of Warsaw" (1920), he gave supreme command of the Army (see p. 23). Edouard Daladier, who as Minister of Defense since 1936 had worked with supplanted Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, became Foreign Minister...
...vital Ministry of the Interior Premier Reynaud appointed energetic, 54-year-old Georges Mandel, till then Minister of Colonies. This was no new job for the sharp-nosed, stocky little Clemencist, who as the Tiger's chef de cabinet during the last war ran the country's domestic affairs and kept up civilian morale. Born Jeroboam Rothschild, Mandel has often been called France's Disraeli, is a super-politician in a country of politicians, lately showed in the Colonial (and Post Office) Ministry that he had lost none of the drive and administrative flair that made...