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Appealing to the rest of the world to join France on the Soup Standard, Blue Ribboner Reeves-Smith, who worked as a lad in the discriminating French wine house of Calvet et Cie. in Bordeaux, declared, "In France the working classes have a higher standard of cooking, more interesting food and a greater variety of food at less cost than in England, notwithstanding that food is cheaper here...
...Vegetable soups," continued Mr. Reeves-Smith, "form an important part of the French working class dietary. Millions of Frenchmen lead a healthy and active existence on nothing but vegetable soup, bread and wine. The omission of these appetizing, nourishing and easily prepared soups is the most serious-I might almost say fatal-omission from the dietary of the English working class. There is no reason why they should not be introduced into England...
...relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said he: "All I ask is enough for three meals a day and a cheap room." He waved a grimy hand. "I ask no wine." For 45 minutes, Author Bodenheim was closeted with the relief administrator who promised him $15 for back rent, $2.50 a week for food. Emerging, he gathered the five pickets, marched gaily over to the Writers' Union to celebrate...
...Civilian Conservation Corps. If the Chamber of Deputies supplies the funds, Flandin's CCC camps will be set up in 13 of France's 90 departments to put French unemployed to work at reforestation and roadbuilding, the men to get food, lodging, clothes and a wine ration, their families to get their wage...
Last week in the port of Algiers 3,000 Arabs backed up Resident General Peyrouton by attacking the tanker Bacchus, breaking her portholes, throwing 60 barrels of wine and a loading crane into the harbor. Day before 200 miles to the west at Mostaganem, Algeria, 300 stoned the City Hall. From Paris last week Minister of the Interior Marcel Régnier, glad for a holiday junket away from France's internal problems, set out for Algeria "to investigate the situation...