Word: loewensteins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty beloved Albert I is King of the Belgians, but the most potent & picturesque Belgian is Captain Alfred Loewenstein. Last week the stocky, swarthy Captain stepped down upon Manhattan from the liner lie de France with modish but retiring Mme. Loewenstein. As a matter of course, they had occupied the liner's premier suite de luxe and had brought along as guests four titled friends, le Comte et la Comtesse de Grunnes & le Comte et la Comtesse de Montalembert. Equally as usual to the Loewensteins was their staff of 15 secretaries and personal servants. Necessarily eight suites and cabins...
Well posted observers spotted instantly the non-truth of this last headline. They recalled that during the slump of the Belgian franc (TIME, March 29, 1926, et seq.), the Government of Belgium flatly rejected a proposal by Captain Loewenstein that he should lend $50,000,000 "without interest" to save the franc, but only upon certain all too shrewd conditions...
When Captain Loewenstein had been in Manhattan for two days, last week, he could stand the flapdoodling no longer. Calling in the gaping newshawks, he addressed them in slightly broken English as follows: "You gentlemen have been altogether too kind. ... I am reminded of a French story which portrays a well-meaning gentleman using a stone in killing a fly which had perched on the head of a friend...
Asked to reveal the "secret of his success," Captain Loewenstein amiably replied...
After a few days' quiet sojourn in Manhattan, the Loewensteins left for Chicago, Canada and the Pacific Coast, whence they will return to sail again for Europe. At the Manhattan office of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp., banking associates of Captain Loewenstein, officials of the firm declared that at least $100,000 would be spent "without ostentation" on the tour...