Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animated partner in a Disney-like-fairyland. In another, he chooses a pig-tailed eight-year-old to step with in a delightful exhibition of his skill. Whatever he is doing, Kelly's ease, grace, and rhythm make his dancing as much a work of art as that of Anton Dolin...
Police Record. Mayor Anton Cermak, who was trying to get Chicago's mildewed reputation scrubbed up for the World's Fair, clamored for a crime cleanup. But the police turned up little except neighborhood rumor: a man named Ted Marcinkiewicz had threatened to hold up Vera's speakeasy. By Dec. 22, when detectives went to see a thick-lipped, black-haired youth named Joe Majczek, the case seemed to be falling apart...
...Parent Philips. In 1891, Dutch Engineer Gerard Philips borrowed 150,000 guilders from his banker father, bought a lamp works in the cheap-labor town of Eindhoven. Gerard, a few months short of bankruptcy, urged his brother Anton to try to sell Philips bulbs. Anton agreed, traveled gaslighted Europe, sold bulbs far beyond the plant's capacity to produce (his greatest coup was a 50,000-bulb-a-year order for the Tsar's Winter Palace). By 1912, the company was big enough to be incorporated (one share was worth 1,000 guilders...
When war again broke out, Philips interests were everywhere. As the Nazis swept into Holland, Philips Chairman Anton Frederick Philips, 71, and Managing Directors P. F. S. Otten, Dr. H. F. Van Walsem, and O. M. E. Loupart escaped from the Hook of Holland in a British destroyer. They had already set up trusts in Britain and the U.S., to keep control of properties the Nazis might miss. But their greatest assets were carried under their hats. They moved on to Curasao, in the Netherlands West Indies, set Up headquarters there. Only Anton's son, Frits, stayed in Eindhoven...
...Napoleon and his defeat of the Prussians at Jena gave the G.S.C. its first great strategic concepts-the wielding of massive armies and the conscription needed to provide the uniformed mass. Two non-Prussians, calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl von Moltke made the study of past wars...