Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martens, a mediocre medical man who had worked for Flemish autonomy. Sentenced to death, Martens escaped to The Netherlands in 1918. The Belgians burned him in effigy. After the passage of the amnesty bill, he returned unobtrusively to take up practice in Ghent. Some time ago, Belgian Premier Paul Henri Spaak proposed Dr. Martens for membership in the newly created Flemish Academy of Science and King Leopold gave the proposal his royal signature. The Premier went before the Parliament and, after a riotous session, finally came out with its reluctant approval. But when he reached his home the veterans were...
Last week Premier Spaak did. King Leopold turned the job of forming a new Cabinet and placating the angry veterans over to onetime Premier Henri Jaspar...
...Died. Henri Anatole ("Papa") Deibler, 76, wealthy perfumer, who as "Monsieur de Paris" (traditional name for France's executioner) pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career; of a cold; in Paris. As well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler was latest of a 68-year-long line of Deibler-executioners. He rarely appeared in public except in his official capacity, traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer...
Like Mark Twain, Sir Henri Deterding once read a report of his death. Unlike Mark Twain, Sir Henri was shocked-not by the report but by the meagreness of his obituary notices, the fact that he was confused with an obscure brother. That was in 1924, and since then Sir Henri has had plenty of publicity, some of it furnished by himself, some by critics who called him "the most powerful man in the world...
Last week in St. Moritz he had a slight heart attack, apologetically told his doctor: "There's nothing much the matter with me." The doctor agreed and left. Before he reached the gate Sir Henri's wife came running after him, crying: "Doctor, Doctor, come back!" This time Sir Henri Deterding was really dead...