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...Assche which had been the home of King Albert and Queen Elisabeth before their elevation to the throne. There old Cardinal Mercier used to drop in to play with the five Phillips children and there the King & Queen called often. Crown Prince (now King) Leopold attended all their better parties, and the Socialist leader Emile Vandervelde went there to discuss with his friend Phillips the social problems of the underprivileged. Recall. After Brussels, Ottawa was a comedown in rank, accepted deliberately, when Calvin Coolidge offered it, so that the Phillips children could attend school in the U. S. In Canada...
...plot of Swiss soil 9 ft. by 10 ft. on which died Astrid, Queen of the Belgians, was purchased last week by His Majesty Leopold III, still cruelly torn by pangs of grief and remorse. In his castle at Brussels the King continues to reflect that Astrid, to whom he was wholly devoted, would be at his side today if an instant's inattention had not sent the car he was driving off the road and crashing into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold...
Last month Publisher Nelson Doubleday and Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst took a quick trip to Europe & back. Last week Doubleday, Doran & Co., publishers, along with Doubleday, Doran Bookshops, Inc., retail booksellers, sued R. H. Macy & Co. for price-cutting on Doubleday books. Whether or not publisher and lawyer had gone abroad to plan their campaign in the privacy of the high seas, their action involved the validity of the Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act, affected Listerine, Lysol, Jello, Postum, many another nonliterary product...
Baldwin Bandwagon. In a last minute reverse and spurt to climb on the Baldwin Bandwagon, peppery Lieut. Colonel Leopold Stennet Amery, who a few days before had flayed the Prime Minister for "playing with fire" in his threat of sanctions at Geneva, rushed off to his Conservative constituency at Birmingham and went the whole hog in fulsome praise of portly Squire Baldwin whose hobby is raising pigs. All last year Colonel Amery and Mr. Churchill fought the Prime Minister from within his Party on the India Bill. "Winnie" leaped for the band wagon in plenty of time (TIME, Sept...
...When Leopold Stokowski flicked his baton in Philadelphia 20 years ago, he had no player more responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his own commanding stick. He had returned to his oldtime colleagues as an experienced, full-fledged conductor. But he had done more than achieve a conductor's technique. Despite Depression he had succeeded in planting an orchestra in Washington, D. C., making it grow and flower...