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...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...fraternitymen call him a ''legacy," watch him well, knowing that he will expect election. A triple "legacy" election of last week took place in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. where three sons of partners became partners. Eldest of the three is Frederick M. Warburg, 33, son of large-mustachioed Felix Moritz Warburg. He was graduated from Harvard in 1919, worked for American International Corp., Kuhn, Loeb, M. M. Warburg & Co. of Hamburg, and Lehman Brothers. At the time of his election, he was again working for Lehman Brothers. He likes riding, snow-sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Partners & Personnel | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...European universities and medi cal schools, expert (1908-12) to the Carnegie Foundation, member (1912, secretary 1917-25) of the Rockefeller General Election Board, director of the Institute of Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld, to open in New Jersey in about two years. Out of Dr. Flexner's surveys of U. S. education came last month a book * that roused to ire many a U. S. college dean. His thesis: that U. S. universities are inferior in most ways to those of England, France, Ger many, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Women, Expansion, Flexner | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...Received a petition that he submit U. S. membership in the World Court to the Senate for ratification. Among many notable petitioners were: John Joseph Pershing, Julius H. Barnes, Roy Wilson Howard, Felix M. Warburg, Jane Addams, Newton Diehl Baker, Seward Prosser, Matthew Woll, Fred John Fisher, Edward A. Filene, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Herbert Bayard Swope, Silas Hardy Strawn, Myron Charles Taylor, Admiral William Sowden Sims, Alfred Pritchard Sloan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Descendants & Ancestors | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz-put them all together they make Archduke Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the thrones of Austria and Hungary-last week attained his 18th birthday and his legal majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Major Otto | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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