Word: henrie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lonely and bleak is the Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell...
Conspicuously absent from this friendly, oily shooting party was Charles F. Meyer, president of Standard Oil of New York, officially at peace with Sir Henri, actually the bitter commercial enemy of Dutch Shell...
...French Royalist news organ, L' Action Française gravely carried in its "Court Circular," last week, the news that "King Jean III of France"† was sending his only son, the "Dauphin Henri of France" on a State Visit to British King-Emperor George V. Ignorant French republicans sniggered, supposing that a chill British reception, if any, awaited Dauphin Henri...
...Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth of 20, who is now an undergraduate at the famed Belgian University of Louvain...
...paid more than the average African wage. Liberian blacks receive 25? a day, in cash. Last week, the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations was called upon to read a curious document. It was a report, made by onetime Harvard professor Raymond Buell, submitted to the League by Henri A. Junod, President of the International Society for the Protection of Natives. Declared Professor Buell, in effect: "Firestone forced its way into Liberia. The U. S. State Department and Herbert Hoover brought pressure to bear to make the Liberian government accept the refinancing operations and admit Firestone rubber. Eventually...