Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belgian founder, M. Georges Nagelmackers of Brussels and Liege. He had visited the U. S. in the '60s and confessed himself "frappe" (struck) by "les services de wagons-lits" already operating there. Returning to Belgium, he enlisted the financial aid of such potent backers as the late King Leopold II (of Belgian Congo infamy) and founded the original Wagons-Lits firm in 1873. Previously he had begun and he continued all his life negotiations with the states of Europe, touching the installation and operation on their lines of his sleeping cars...
...Died. Leopold Guy Frances Maynard Greville, Sixth Earl of Warwick, 45, hero of three wars, British attache in 1917 to the staff of General Pershing; after a long illness; at his home in Hove, Sussex...
Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Among them were men hitherto more notable than he in steel, men such as Pres ident James A. Campbell of Youngstown, Chairman Leopold E. Block of Inland and President P. D. Block of Inland. They and their colleagues agreed upon the merger of the two corporations. A majority of their directors and stockholders must yet formally agree. If they do, as seems probable, their combined assets will be $385,000,000, their ingot capacity 4,942,000 tons yearly. Surpassing them in the U. S. will be only U. S. Steel (assets...
...women are subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck...
...Josef Casimir Hofmann is its director and heads the piano department. Marcella Sembrich is in charge of voice; Felix Salmond, 'cello; Louis Bailly, viola and chamber music; Carlos Salzedo, harp; Arthur Rodzinski. orchestra; Reginald O. Morris, theory and composition. Last week were added to the list Violinists Leopold Auer, now 82 years old, and Efrem Zimbalist, one of his many famed pupils, and Edward Bachman. Karl Flesch, it was announced, had retired, would leave soon for a concert tour of Europe...