Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month ago a fast-talking, song-publishing (Isle of Capri, Serenade in the Night) Belgian named Peter Maurice Jacques Koch de Gooreynd arrived in Manhattan with a box full of Imperial Chemical's Perspex lenses. He immediately hired a publicity man and a Waldorf-Astoria suite, where he bounced lenses on the table, declared that he could sell eyeglasses for $1 or so a pair, binoculars for $2.50, cameras...
...world's uncut diamonds. Not all these diamonds come from its own mines. Indeed, the great African "pipe" mines were closed down tight throughout most of Depression.* But De Beers controls Diamond Corp.. haughty successor to the old monopolistic Diamond Syndicate, marketing agency for the Belgian Congo and other alluvial producers. Except for an unimportant dribble from miscellaneous fields, all the world's diamonds pass through No. 8 Charterhouse Street, London, headquarters of Diamond Corp. In bad times Diamond Corp. buys more than it sells, in good times it sells more than it buys, annual turnover varying...
...technically committed by the Locarno Treaties to defend Britain or France if either should be attacked, has long been ready to let the rest of Europe go hang. Handsome young King Leopold III seven months ago gave out that his country intended to "follow a policy exclusively and entirely Belgian" (TIME, Oct. 26), and last week that policy was fulfilled. The French and British Governments, making a virtue of necessity both agreed to release Belgium from he promise to defend Britain and France from attack, but maintained their pledge, from motives of self-interest, to fight if Belgim is invaded...
...Other nations are beginning to consider it worth their while to talk with us as equals, now that we are again armed and powerful," frankly said Hjalmar Schacht to Belgian reporters...
...COMMONER MARRIED A KING-Baroness cle Vaughan-Washburn ($2.50). Guarded but self-revealing confessions of "Très Belle," who at 16 became the mistress of 65-year-old Belgian King Leopold II, bore him two sons, married him four days before his death...