Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended an important banking conference, the latter scribbled the just-arrived score of a football game on a card and slipped it to the former-Yale 7; Princeton 0. Back from van Zeeland came the re-joinder-"Belgian Cabinet: Princeton 2; Yale 0." Cabinet Minister of Transport Vicomte Charles de Bus de Warnaffe was once a Princeton graduate student too. Mr. van Zeeland's brother and his nephew both studied at Princeton. He has promised that as soon as his elder son graduates from Louvain he shall study at Princeton...
Banker into Politics. After Princeton, where he wrote his M. A. thesis on the U. S. Federal Reserve System, Paul van Zeeland practiced law briefly, soon went to the Banque Nationale de Belgique, where he rose rapidly to be secretary, director, vice governor. The switch from state banking, generally considered a government service, to active politics was painless. Paul van Zeeland was made Minister-without-Portfolio in the Cabinet of Count Charles de Broqueville in 1934, with the special job of deflating Belgium's dangerously inflated currency. Parliament would not accept many of the reforms he suggested. Paul...
Moonfaced, middle-aged and wearing a shabby black jacket, a north of England "poor man's'' clergyman appeared at the gates of the Château de Cande last week and recited a little piece...
...months ago his Government abolished the droit de tablier ("right of the apron"), the fee that waiters and washroom attendants had to pay their employers for the privilege of working for tips...
Still in command of the southern armies was hoarse-voiced General Queipo de Llano whose persistent personal broadcasts from Seville have been one of the high spots of the civil...