Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today, though many of the Rothschilds still play the game at which they cannot lose, there are some members of the family who have turned from gold to other interests. Most prominent of these is Baron Henri de Rothschild, M. D., of Paris. He considers himself a physician, an author a sportsman?forgets the golden touch of Jewry except when he flings down a million francs here, or 40 million there in philanthropy...
...Whether she will now go to sea or remain on shore as consulting marine-engineer has not been announced." Robert Howard Lord,* Professor of history at Harvard: "It was announced last week that I had resigned from the Harvard faculty, to prepare myself for Roman Catholic priesthood." Sinclair Lewis, author: "In London I said: 'I have finished a book. I have been working hard for a year and all the time I have been homesick for England. For the last eleven years the longest time I have stayed in one place was eight months and that was when...
...Magna cum laude Harvard '06, technical adviser to the Paris Peace Commission, author of The Second Partition of Poland, The Origin of the War of 1870 and (with Professors Charles Downer Hazen and Archibald Gary Coolidge and the late William R. Thayer) Three Peace Congresses of the Nineteenth Century...
...Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, was reported last week from Rome to have excommunicated in the second or more serious degree** Leon Daudet (son of the famed author Alphonse Daudet) and Charles Maurras, both leading members of the French Royalist party. The excommunicated had stigmatized in their Paris newspaper, L'Action Francaise, all Republican Catholics-asserting that true Catholics are Royalists. The Pope not only excommunicated M. Daudet and M. Maurras, last week, but despatched an official rebuke to the French Cardinals Lucon (Rheims), Charost (Rennes), and Billot for upholding L'Action Francaise in various letters written by them...
...Author. Emil Ludwig began to write plays at the age of 15 and, despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly...