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François de Wendel became manager of "The Grandsons of François de Wendel and Company," which he built into one of France's largest steel works. His brother Guy was a senator of France. His brother Charles was a member of the German Reichstag. During World War I, the De Wendels were suspected of playing both sides of the Rhine...
South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan has carried out a policy of relentless Jim Crow segregation and suppression against both blacks and Indians. Last week in the Union's third largest city, Durban, where some 124,000 of the white masters live dangerously close to native quarters teeming with twice as many blacks and about 110,000 Indians, the smouldering resentment of South Africa's Negroes sprang to flame. Inexplicably, they turned it against the only people more oppressed than themselves...
...engineers and technicians were working last week to make a 20-year-old Chilean dream come true. Two years ago, San Vicente had been a peaceful fishing village sought out by tourists for its seascapes and broad vistas of green forest stretching to the banks of Chile's largest river...
Undergraduates received $371,875.65 in scholarship aid during 1947-48, the report states. The largest amount furnished in any pre-war year...
Member Out. The son of a Union Army surgeon, Louis Schmidt got his M.D. at Northwestern University. He hung up his shingle in Chicago 51 years ago. His medical practice grew quickly, eventually became one of Chicago's largest. The growth was helped somewhat in later years by his souped-up Lincoln which got him to out-of-town calls at a spectacular clip. He hired as chauffeur a former policeman who had driven in the Indianapolis speedway races. Says Schmidt: "I don't believe in doctors driving cars. I don't believe in women driving cars...