Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon Dutch newshawks gave the tragedy world interest by rushing off to scribble that Mevrouw Van Eeghen is the niece of mighty Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of the internationally potent Royal Dutch Shell (Oil) Group. Shrewder newshawks stressed Mevrouw Van Eeghen's unique distinction; she was, last week, the only female member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. To find a similar business woman in the U. S. one must search out pretty, audacious Miss Peggy Cleary of Manhattan (TIME, April 2), the spinster-stockholder who bid $375,000, last fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat...
...London close-lipped Sir Henri Deterding said: "I can throw no light upon this sad affair...
Paradoxically light was being thrown upon Sir Henri himself, last week, from Manhattan. There President Richard Airey of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., a Royal Dutch subsidiary, declared: "I wish to dispel a popular illusion that Sir Henri Deterding has changed his nationality from Dutch to British. . . . Living principally in England, as he does, he prefers to be known by his British title . . . but he has never changed his nationality...
...other members of the "original 8": Arthur B. Davies, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn, William J. Glackens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, George Benjamin Luks. Five of them are Philadelphians...
John Sloan, Robert Henri, James Montgomery Flagg, famed all of them for worthy and comparatively orthodox works, the latter for his flashy magazine illustrations, allowed themselves to be represented among the Independents...