Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corroborates that an official of the British company described its progress to him as "entirely satisfactory." Again probing deeper, Miss Thompson claims to have ascertained that very many small, private concessionaires "are making enormous profits, profits which they could not possibly expect to draw in any European country or America." She adds: "An ideal concession is that of a Danish button company which makes buttons from pressed blood obtained from Russian slaughter houses, and has acquired a fortune in a very short time...
...visage of Clarence Hungerford Mackay in any of the thousands of offices of the Postal Telegraph Co. His father, the late John W. Mackay, rough-palmed Irish '49er, found gold in California river beds and bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection of armor, which lines his great halls on Long Island. The masses know him be cause...
...held in May. The foreign policy division of the platform is already in the hands of four committees who will voice the sentiments of the club. A committee headed by Edward Dumbauld 2L is investigating the question of World peace with reference to the League of Nations. The European situation, Russia and Italy, is being considered by a committee in charge of C. J. White 3L. A. B. Hawes '28 will be in charge of the committee which will undertake to formulate a policy in the Pan-American tangle, with reference to the Monroe Doctrine. He will attempt to decide...
Gilbert is a hearty advocate of the efforts by Americans to attain a style distinct from those of European composers. In pursuit of this aim Mr. Gilbert has written much music based upon negro or Indian themes. His "Comedy Overture" has been played all over this country, in Europe, and even in Russia. His "Indian Sketches" have also been performed by leading American orchestras...
...under it to cool the rooms. He imported two ladies from Philadelphia to take care of his children. With unique ingenuity, he literally found money growing upon trees and gave Haiti a stable currency. He encouraged trade, organized an enormous commerce in sugar, corresponded as an equal with European kings and built a fortress, on the top of a hill near his capital of Cap Hai'tien. In 1820, when an army was marching on his palace, Henry Christophe sent his children away and shot himself dead, with a golden bullet...