Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Billings Kellogg was caught last week by London newsgatherers between the studio of Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, who is painting a Kellogg portrait to hang in the State Department at Washington, and a golf course. Said Mr. Kellogg: "I said almost everything one could say in regard to international peace during my term as Secretary of State. . . . As one of the authors of the Peace Pact, I should not talk about it, but I feel satisfied that it made a great impression throughout the world...
...Brooklyn, one Sylvester Walker, Negro, gave to Rose Redy, his lady-friend, a de luxe artificial left leg ($180, tinted to match her complexion). Attentions of other men to rehabilitated Rose inflamed his jealousy, so last week Sylvester Walker stormed into her home, demanded back his (her) leg. She called police, kept...
...situation is far worse in Italy. There all the correspondents bootlick Prime Minister Mussolini or are thrown out. In Spain the censorship of Dictator Primo de Rivera is theoretically absolute, but the indolent Spanish temperament allows correspondents to smuggle out pretty much what they please...
...De Saint Phalles...
When the Manhattan brokerage house of de Saint Phalle & Co. last month divulged (to customers, thence to prying newsgatherers) its balance sheet, the other 614 member houses of the New York Stock Exchange confessed their surprise. Neither brokerage houses, such as de Saint Phalle, nor banking houses, such as J. P. Morgan & Co., are inclined to follow corporation practice and announce their financial standing. De Saint Phalle & Co., revealed total assets of some $33,000,000. Last week it appeared that the same prosperous, socially prominent de Saint Phalles* would sponsor yet another innovation. Within two months, their office...