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which you never saw outside of Carmen , to get those horses into France . For weeks , we had these smugglers leading horses and mules up and down the dark mountain defiles of the Pyrenees , delivering them at dead of night with mystic ...
which you never saw outside of Carmen , to get those horses into France . For weeks , we had these smugglers leading horses and mules up and down the dark mountain defiles of the Pyrenees , delivering them at dead of night with mystic ...
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And , in particular , he carried on many private talks with French Premier Aristide Briand , who became his close friend . For it was from France , and from Italy , that Dawes expected most of the trouble of the conference would come .
And , in particular , he carried on many private talks with French Premier Aristide Briand , who became his close friend . For it was from France , and from Italy , that Dawes expected most of the trouble of the conference would come .
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The Bank of France committed itself to take an equal amount “ Everybody informed , ” Dawes wrote , “ knows that England's credit situation is in a crisis , demanding the same kind of help which England , in the past , extended to those ...
The Bank of France committed itself to take an equal amount “ Everybody informed , ” Dawes wrote , “ knows that England's credit situation is in a crisis , demanding the same kind of help which England , in the past , extended to those ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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