Word: latour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels, five days later, the 1940 Olympic Games were considered as good as canceled when Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that if the Games cannot be held in Finland, as scheduled, they will not be held at all. Originally the 1940 Olympics were to have been held in Japan, were switched to Finland because of the war in Eastern Asia (TIME, July...
While Tokyo merchants were moaning over the potential loss of millions of yen, Belgium's Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that the 1940 Olympics would be awarded to Helsingfors, the Finnish city whose bid had been outvoted (36 to 27) at the committee meeting in 1936. Peace-loving Finland, a land of Grade A athletes, including Runners Paavo Nurmi, Hannes Kolehmainen, Gunnar Hoeckert, has never been host to the Olympics, was last week planning a modest program in keeping with the ideals of international amity...
After delegates of 21 nations had been greeted in Cairo's Royal Opera House by 15 kind words from King Farouk, the I. O. C.'s president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, said he had visions of "the dawn of a period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria...
Santa Fe is one of the oldest Catholic settlements in North America. Much of its color and history has been set down by Novelist Willa Gather in Death Comes for the Archbishop. Nearly a century ago Father John B. Lamy (Father Jean Marie Latour in the book) was sent to take the district from Mexican ecclesiastical control, build it as an independent vicariate Apostolic. A gentle, ascetic priest in buckskins, he made friends with Kit Carson, brought the church to many who had long been unchurched, became Santa Fe's archbishop in 1875, built Santa Fe's cathedral...
Author Wright, anticipating biased criticism from jealous critics, says: "They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more...