Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What, then, caused Publisher McLean's Washington Post's editorial discourtesy to the Belgian Ambassador, Prince Albert Edouard Eugene Lamoral de Ligne? What moved Friend of Belgium Herbert Hoover to ask the Prince de Ligne to a small dinner as a special mark of esteem? Publisher McLean said he did not. And that being so, President Hoover's courtesy to the Prince was not, said Plaintiff McLean, a "squelching" of Publisher McLean-as the Philadelphia Record had said...
...large and prosperous Cafe Edouard Sacher on the Ringstrasse belongs to Frau Sacher's son. The Cafe Edouard Sacher is new and noisy. There is a jazz band, a cocktail bar, plenty of money in the cashier's drawer. Frau Sacher never allowed Edouard to have a word in the management of her hotel. Still Edouard was a dutiful son. It was no secret that the jazzy new cafe had paid many an overdue account for the old hotel...
Last week all the world knew that Frau Sacher ruled her hotel no longer. Viennese looked at the announcement over their coffee and whipped cream, and wondered. Was Edouard tired of paying Mamma's bills? Was Frau Anna, now nearly 70, retiring from old age? Had she, who wore an ermine wrap as a bathrobe, finally grown too eccentric...
...fact is that M. Poincaré's present coalition of the Right-Center is not expected to hold together much longer. The potent Cartel des Gauches or Coalition of Left Parties-which went into eclipse when Edouard Herriot failed as Prime Minister to save the franc (TIME, April 20, 1925)-is now reviving with esprit and kudos under the leadership of Down-and-Outer Herriot, who may soon...
...Russia, Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky and in Italy Minister of Education Giuseppe Belluzzo are well-known personages. In France, the Minister of Public Instruction was once famed, grizzled Edouard Herriot; is now M. Pierre Marnaud. In the U. S. the lot of the Commissioner of Education is subordinate, obscure. Reason: the U. S. Education Commissioner is essentially only an adviser. His official duties are to "collect statistics and general information showing the conditions and progress of education in the U. S. and all foreign countries; to advise State, county and local school officers as to the administra tion...