Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airplane commutation between Brussels and St. Wolfgang (Austria) has stopped. In four eventful days last week Belgium's royal D.P. (Displaced Person), King Leopold III, finally made up his mind. So did his Parliament...
Faced with a general strike if he returned to Belgium, Leopold finally announced that he would not go back to Belgium. He would not abdicate, either. But he would abide by the people's will in a "free and honest election." Promptly Parliament slapped him down. A bill barring Leopold's return without Parliament's consent was carried in the Chamber of Representatives by 98 votes to six, in the Senate by 77 votes to 58. Leopold's only supporters were the Catholic party, whose six Cabinet ministers resigned...
...TIME'S Pony Edition [June 4] I read a letter saying that the gentlemen of the U.S.A.A.F. are very much concerned with the marriage of Gloria Yanderbilt di Cicco to Leopold Stokowski...
Cold Belgium. In Belgium, production has been hamstrung by a series of political strikes (e.g., the miners oppose the return of King Leopold), and is only 65% of normal. Typical result: the Belgian steel industry was so short of coal in March that only one plant operated. Now the mills are turning out only 25,000 tons of steel a month, 12% of prewar production...
...grey-haired judge listened to many and varied complaints. (Sample: an indignant woman, exhibiting her ill-fitting false teeth, demanded a refund from her dentist.) The day's weary business done, the judge climbed from the bench and went uptown to his avocation: conducting 100 amateur musicians. Judge Leopold Prince was rehearsing his City Amateur Symphony Orchestra for the season's first summer concert...