Word: heeren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-guarded brick building in Chicago houses what may well be the most priceless card index in the U.S. The index belongs to a young chemist named Martin H. Heeren. The cards bear strange titles...
...Harrison Williams, who dropped to fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert Emmet Sherwood, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell. Among the runners-up for places on the list were: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (3 votes), Gertrude Lawrence...
...older than 30 years, it has probably been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture." The German Minister, Georg Viktor von Heeren, rushed to the Foreign Office to bluster. Old Dr. Nintchitch gave him exactly six minutes to speak his piece...
When Herr von Heeren asked what the new Government intended to do about the Axis Pact, the Foreign Minister answered: "I cannot tell you that yet." Later Dr. Nintchitch announced that Yugoslavia would respect all "public and open" commitments which previous governments had made; i.e., it would not respect any secret clause in the treaty. (Insiders said that the pact contained a clause creating a no man's land on the Greco-Serb border, where Germany would be allowed to concentrate motorized divisions.) Still later Dr. Nintchitch elaborated some more: Yugoslavia was returning to a policy of "strict neutrality...
...Nazis, showed signs of stiffening, if only for a historic instant, the people were hysterically happy. The stiffening was obtuse: it evidenced itself in rumors and unconfirmed statements-that Yugoslavia would accept nothing more than a non-aggression pact; that when trim, elegant German Minister to Belgrade Victor von Heeren strongly urged adherence to the Axis pact, and offered a plane to carry Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked to travel by train; that the first full-dress meeting of the Yugoslav Crown Council since...