Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return, you must observe strict discipline, you must consider yourselves my own soldiers. Not one word of all this is to be written until the battle ends." Right in front of the Marshal's headquarters stood the powerful Zeiss telescope, formidable as a cannon, that goat-bearded Marshal de Bono had brought to Africa. Through it the staff officers and war correspondents squinted for the next six days, saw the whole development of a modern military engagement as few men have ever done. About ten miles straight before them was Amba Aradam, the mountain that was Italy...
Sued. Florence E. Dolan Willys, 38, second wife of the late John North Willys, automobile manufacturer, who inherited a share (estimated at $3,500,000) of his estate; by Mrs. Virginia de Landa, his daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In her petition, Mrs. de Landa charged Mrs. Willys with divorcing her first husband on fraudulent grounds, asked that her marriage to Willys be declared null & void, that she be enjoined from claiming any part of Willys' estate...
...Monte Carlo. With her husband, a well-known Beau Brummel of the Mauve Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...
...Pont de Nemours 8 Co. made $62,085,000 in 1935 as against $46,701,000 in 1934. About one-third of the Du Pont net was supplied by $22,497,000 in dividends from General Motors. Yet the chemical portion of the Du Pont business showed the greatest profits in the company's history...
Magnin's customers are the richest and swankest between the Gulf of California and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Four-fifths of them run charge accounts, and, on Magnin's balance sheet, customer accounts are nearly three times as large as inventory and amount to 45% of all assets. But Magnin's has been in the red only twice-in 1932 and in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake-fire when merchandising activities had to be carried on in the Magnin house...