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FRANCE: Salesman & Suite

When he left Paris to visit President Hoover for reasons of high policy (see p. 11), Premier Pierre Laval of France had to think of Josette and of J. P. Morgan, also of the Press.

With dignity and wisdom Mr. Morgan called in Paris upon the Premier, unbosomed the welcome advice of wealth. But Josette was a handful, has been for the past month. She has teased and begged to be taken along, pirouetted on her pretty feet and left the Premier no choice. She went along last week, but only on three conditions...

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