Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong were the nerves of French Fascists that when Socialist Blum drastically decreed suppression of their leagues last week, No. 1 Fascist Colonel François de la Rocque replied that the decree was illegal and would be fought to a finish in the courts. "There are still judges in France!" cried the Colonel, instead of ordering his Fascists into the streets. "From tomorrow we become a political party. If the Government opposes, its action will be equivalent to the proclamation of a Communist and Socialist dictatorship. In this case the Head of the State will have to recognize...
...with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away from church, and last week during the South Hadley de liberations, which were broadly planned to focus on "The Effective Church," he arose with some ready ideas on the matter...
...globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child clinging to his chin...
...corporate trustee is usually the trust department of a bank. It is the trustee who holds the mortgage securing the bonds, who forecloses if the borrower de faults. As pointed out in the SEC report, "The trustee is the only agency avowedly designed for the protection of security holders during the entire life of the security." Commenting on his findings last week, young Commissioner Douglas declared: "By & large, the corporate trustee has been sitting idly by while bondholders have been exploited. . . . And when I speak of the corporate trustees, I am speaking about some of the leading banks...
...Manhattan because impostors have been invading the thriving advertising testimonial business of true nobility in the U. S., Castilian Baron Giorgio Suriani di Castelnuovo and French Count Joseph Monneret de Villard formed a Noble-men's Club of America. Said Baron Castelnuovo: "For those of the 700 or 800 persons in New York qualified to claim noble titles we shall provide a dignified medium for commercial contacts...