Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever alleged that the present Undersecretary of State is an eagle of intellect, but he has done many a job competently and quietly. Among them was the distribution of $1,000,000, willed by a Sharon, Pa. millionaire, Frank H. Buhl, to improve the lot of Belgian orphans. The fund was so well administered by an unpaid staff that it has only recently been exhausted, all the orphans having grown up. Today Mr. & Mrs. Phillips live in a commodious house on upper Massachusetts Ave., sharing a garden with their next-door neighbor, Hungary's Count Laszlo Szechenyi. There they...
Died. Emile Francqui, 72, Belgium's richest man and No. 1 hard money expert; in Brussels. A burly, morose and solitary man. Francqui put aside his gifted money-making (banks, copper) whenever Belgium reached a financial crisis, twice devalued the Belgian franc, invented the foreign exchange medium of the belga (five Belgian francs). Europe called him "The Mystery Man," and "The Copper King of the Congo," where as a young captain he saved for Belgium from the British the territory in which one of the world's richest copper mines, Katanga, was later discovered...
...disposal of Sir Samuel, Premier Laval and Baron Aloisi last week the negotiated basis. Next logical step was to get "The Deal's" elements up into a respectable League atmosphere, and for this purpose the Great Powers turned to "Dear Little Belgium." Hot from Brussels to Geneva went Belgian Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland. Up he popped before the League's Sanctions Committee of 52 states and asked that Britain and France receive an unlimited "mandate to seek the elements of a solution." An interjection by Poland that so momentous a decision would have to come before...
...marriage of Spanish Alfonso XIII's third son Juan, heir-pretender to the Throne, in St. Mary's Basilica to his brunette Italian cousin, Princess Marie-Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily who sobbed convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave the stiff-armed, flat-palmed Fascist salute, saluting Army style instead. In the present crisis. Italy's Crown Prince...
...Belgian radio loudspeakers last week came these shocking words, broadcast from Italy: "Just as there were no atrocities in Belgium in 1914. so the reports about Italians committing atrocities in Ethiopia today are unfounded." Inasmuch as Belgium's very soul is rooted in the idea of German Wartime atrocities, the Belgian Government promptly instructed its Ambassador to Italy to ask the Italian Government for the exact text of the broadcast, as a preliminary to a protest...