Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maurice Maeterlinck, 67, Belgian poet, explained to the Revue Beige why he has lived in France most of his life: "If I had remained in Belgium, I should have become a 'miserable macrobite' among the small bourgeois who surrounded me. Belgium professed, at the time when I lived there, a deep hatred of letters. Men who had talent found themselves up against things unless they gave up their art. It was only toward 1880 that things began to change...
Philip Snowden. Stubbornly battling for 100% fulfillment of his demands, pallid, drawn-faced, crippled Chancellor Snowden rejected, day after day. a long series of Franco-Belgian-Italian verbal offers, all claimed by the Latins to give Britain upwards of 80% satisfaction, all denounced by Mr. Snowden as giving less than 20%?a discrepancy accounted for by the fact that each side insisted on computing at different rates of interest the value of the sums involved over 59 years. "I have had the patience of a Job!" exclaimed the Chancellor to British correspondents. "I told this conference on the first...
Chemicals & Dyes. Solvay & Co., great Belgian chemical company, planned to acquire through its subsidiary Solvay American Investment Corp., 100,000 additional shares of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. At present prices, the shares will cost more than $32,000,000. To finance the operation $25,000,000 of 5½% cumulative preferred stock of Solvay American will be sold, this stock carrying warrants permitting the purchase until 1934 of Allied Chemical & Dye stock at $325, one share for each four shares of Solvay American preferred. When the operation is complete Solvay will hold 466,488 shares of Allied Chemical & Dye, more...
Engaged. Miss Helena Lodge, granddaughter of late U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and sister of Journalist Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; to Edouard de Streel, first secretary of the Belgian Embassy in Washington...
Albert of Belgium swam incognito last week at Mariakerke (best Belgian bathing resort), was robbed of gold watch, gold penknife, wallet containing 500 francs; found his clothes tied in knots when he returned...