Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment when we returned home about his army's need for American money and munitions. The banquet closed with all of the Americans filing past General Semenov who embraced each American and planted a bushy kiss on each cheek in the European fashion...
...Zeeland unofficial command of the expanded Oslo Group of nations (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, Switzerland) and three months ago he went to the U. S. to present to President Roosevelt the ideas of these countries, who have agreed to be neutral in any coming European war (TIME, June 14, July 5). Returning with still added prestige, Paul van Zeeland seemed ready to compete with Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes for the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
Last week Webb Miller, United Press's European manager, published a series of six "uncensored" articles whose material he gathered in Russia this summer. High point of the series was a story illustrating the vigilance Soviet writers must keep to stay in line...
...graduated in 1905 from Princeton (to which university the Rockefellers have now given $700,000), emerged from New York Law School in 1908. Under Mayor McClellan he got into municipal government as assistant corporation counsel, later became Commissioner of Accounts. He first joined the Rockefellers as an investigator of European police systems. In 1916 Newton Diehl Baker sent him to the Mexican border, recalled him after U. S. entry into the World War to take charge of training camp activities. After the Armistice President Wilson appointed him Undersecretary of the League of Nations, a post from which he resigned after...
Died. Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, 69, head of the English branch* of the potent European Jewish banking family; at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, England. Baron Rothschild eschewed banking, but became one of the world's greatest naturalists. In 1932, financially embarrassed, he sold his bird collection, which had cost him $1,000,000, to the American Museum of Natural History for $500,000. He kept his moth and butterfly collection of 1,500,000 specimens. The Rothschild title passes to his 26-year-old nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge...