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Married. Emlen Knight Davies, 22, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies by his first wife, Emlen Knight; and Robert Leon Grosjean, 30, Belgian banker's son; at the home of her brother-in-law, Senator Millard E. Tydings; in Havre de Grace...
...placed in the orchestra seats while the audience sat on the stage. When part of the national chorus, transported to the World's Fair, reached the climax of the Federation's week-a concert in the Court of Peace-it encountered competition. A carillon in the Belgian Pavilion was ding-donging for all it was worth. The chorus, aided by the club-ladies who valiantly joined in the singing, put up a good fight. But the carillon...
Tours. Although there was hope that the "war of nerves" waged by Italy and Germany might drag on through the summer without a major crisis, Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
Axis. If Fuhrer Hitler had any answer to this tough talk it was to announce a spectacular tour of inspection of Germany's defenses along the Rhine on the French and Belgian borders. Dictator Mussolini also inspected fortifications along the French border, stopping here & there to make a speech. At Turin he said that...
...first year because there was not even garbage for them to eat. As early as 1916 ration cards for fats and meat had been introduced, and the "turnip" winter was at hand. In coal and steel production War-time Germany held up, partly because of the capture of Belgian and French mines and blast furnaces. But the immense capacity of Pittsburgh, made available to the Allies even before the United States' entry into the war, easily beat down the Ruhr and the German State lost its first...