Word: antwerp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent swordsman is Architect William Hamilton Russell. When not designing country houses for tycoons in Newport, Islip and Wheatley Hills, he represents the U. S. on international fencing teams. He was U. S. champion in 1916, 1919, 1923. He was on the Olympic Team at Antwerp in 1920 and Paris in 1924. Last week he exhibited a whole case full of medals and a gold-plated rapier from his admirers in the Fencers' Club...
...Antwerp, fourth largest European port, the local Flemings organized last week their "Fleming Fascist Party." Platform : secession of Antwerp and Flanders from the Kingdom of Belgium and union with the Queendom of the Netherlands. Symbol of the Fleming Fascists (same as Adolf Hitler's): the Hakenkreuz or swastika...
...Belgian government bonds are selling above par. Savings bank deposits are increasing yearly. The Belgian bank discount rate is 2¼% as compared with 8% for Germany, 4¼% for Britain. Exports almost equal imports. There are only 62,000 unemployed. Antwerp shipping increases yearly, and the city's skyline, almost unchanged since the days of Pieter Breughel and Jan van Eyck, is now stabbed by an up-to-date portentous 20-story skyscraper. The gold coverage of Belgian banknotes is at the proud level...
...draped little Swedish freighter, the Anna, tying up at the Montgomery Ward pier. What made the Anna's arrival noteworthy was the fact that she, a half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson a gold watch; Vice President Webb made a speech about oldtime Merchant Montgomery...
...Royal Family, laboring to preserve their impartiality and promote the unity of Belgium, had recently grown unpopular among some of their Flemish subjects. Proof: Crown Prince Leopold and Queen Elisabeth have been hissed and booed within the past year at Antwerp, Malines, Louvain. The obvious remedy seemed to lie in a discreet, informal holiday to be taken by Her Majesty among the wandering canals and soft green meadows of reposeful Flanders...