Word: bergener
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...Bergen and Narvik...
...policies was wielded by General Van Overstraeten, the brilliant, energetic, overbearing military tutor who became his chief military adviser. General Van Overstraeten did his best to dislodge pro-Ally War Minister General Henri Denis, succeeded only in getting rid of Chief-of-Staff General E. Van den Bergen. Younger Belgian Army officers called General Van Overstraeten "vice...
...capital by selling 600,000 shares of preferred stock to present stock holders, including his dominant Transamerica Corp., the unsubscribed balance to the public (TIME, May 13). After the private offering to common stockholders hit a stone wall, the underwriters (Ladenberg, Thalmann, Otis & Co. and John J. Bergen & Co.) called it a day for the duration of the panic...
...Errol Flynn, Jimmie Fidler (in pirate costume), Johnny Weissmuller, Ken Murray (in pirate costume) and others fed (at $7.50 a head) decorative celebrities and the prominent press. Among the 400 eaters: Hearst's Polly Prying Louella Parsons, Columnists Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler, Comic Jack Benny, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (his balding head swathed in a pirate's bandanna), Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour (who had dressed up in a pirate costume that afternoon for photographers), and Fox's smart, hand-pumping Publicity Chief Harry Brand...
Admiral Raeder was putting pressure on Germany's fitting up of Oslo Fjord, Bergen and Trondheim as submarine bases, and on the laying down of new tonnage-merchant as well as naval- in Norse and Danish shipyards...