Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglo-Dutch group decided to invade the U. S. field in a large way and purchased 130,869 shares of the Union Oil Co., through its subsidiary, the Shell-Union, for about $21,000,000. This, however, constituted only 26% of Union's stock, and Sir Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch, resolved to obtain 51% to control the Company. But several large Union stockholders, alarmed at the foreign invasion, organized the Union Oil Associates of California and pledged themselves not to sell their stock to the foreign companies. Under these circumstances, Sir Henri found it impossible to carry...
...Henri de Kerillis, journalist, last week quoted a speech made by Painlevé in 1913, showing how the politicien made a bad prophecy, and asked if he may not now be a bad prophet. The 1913 speech: "Above their hateful militarism, the democracies of Germany and Austria offer us their hands and open their hearts to us. Citoyens, do not allow yourselves to be impressed by the phantoms of War stirred up by Reaction and Clericalism...
...Monsieur Henri Beraud is apparently unwilling to let an old tradition die. Instead of trusting a ponderous and modern law of libel to crash his annoying critics into silence he has polished up his grandfather's rapier, frothed slightly at the mouth, and challenged them en masse to a duel in the true Dumas style. As yet there are no indications that the editors who objected to Monsieur Beraud's new novel have entered into the spirit of the occasion by sending their seconds...
...were not shown in previous annals. This is due to the able leadership of Homer St. Gaudens (son of the famed sculptor), who has been Art Director of the Carnegie Institute for the past three years. Among the American paintings are works of Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, Henry Lee McFee, Mahonri Young, Eugene Speicher, William Glackens, Maurice Sterne, Robert Henri, George Bellows...
...General Henri Gouraud, bearded, one-armed hero of the poilus and doughboys, was elected to the French Academy in the section of archeology. While commanding French forces in the Near East he created an archeological service which facilitated the excavations at Byblus, Tyre, Sidon...