Word: louvain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention to such private undertakings as shops, hotels, garage owners, doctors. Meanwhile, the Belgium Royal Commission on Names and Dialects made haste to appease M. Grammens and all Flemish nationalists. Announced last week was a change of name for hundreds of Belgian towns and villages. Samples: Leuven for Louvain, Ieper for Ypres, Brugge for Bruges, Kortrijk for Courtrai...
...dropped its bickering to honor Herbert Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait of the late great King Albert, but dedicated to Herbert Hoover...
...such thing is Gustave Sap, Belgian scholar, politician, one of the leaders of the Catholic Party and onetime Minister of Finance (1934). But though Scholar Sap has been professor of economics at Louvain University, Politician Sap is not a man to forget a grudge. Independently wealthy, Gustave Sap has been frequently named the financial backer of Rexist Leon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader who was soundly trounced at the polls by black-haired, red-mustached Premier Paul van Zeeland five months ago (TIME. April...
Diplomatically there was only one reason why Belgium's 43-year-old Premier had called on Franklin Roosevelt: courtesy. He had come to the U. S. to receive an honorary degree from Princeton University where 16 years ago, as a graduate student from Louvain, he studied economics. Certainly he had not come to the U. S. to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty, for that was all signed, sealed and put into effect two years ago. Still he found enough to talk about with the President under the awning on the deck of the Potomac (except for a brief interval...
...joinder-"Belgian Cabinet: Princeton 2; Yale 0." Cabinet Minister of Transport Vicomte Charles de Bus de Warnaffe was once a Princeton graduate student too. Mr. van Zeeland's brother and his nephew both studied at Princeton. He has promised that as soon as his elder son graduates from Louvain he shall study at Princeton...