Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Mrs. Perle Mesta, ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, was off on her guided tour of the Soviet Union, some highly discriminating thieves broke into her Newport, R.I. villa, next door to the mansion of Railroad Financier Robert R. Young. The booty: three egg cups, several ash trays and a small selection of cups & saucers...
...early 1880s the picture was exhibited in Philadelphia and New York, offered for sale at $1,000. There were no takers. Then in 1891 the French government, apologizing to the artist for the paltry price, bought the Mother for 4,000 francs ($772), and hung it in the Luxembourg Museum...
Slim, buoyant Frances Willis is a hardworking, tactful career diplomat. A Ph.D. (Stanford), she taught history at Goucher and politics at Vassar before entering the foreign service at 28, served tours of duty in Chile, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Finland. In 1944-45 she was assistant to Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, who says of her nomination to be Ambassador to Switzerland: "I think nobody could do a better job than...
...from 6? to around 22?, and is rivaling the Swiss franc for stability. Italy's lira, which sank as low as 915 to the dollar during 1948's fears of Communist election victories, is almost up to the official rate (625). The Benelux nations-Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg-established such a good postwar export trade that their stable currencies did not even tremble during the disastrous floods. By contrast, France, still without a Premier, was running so big a governmental and export deficit that the U.S. last week had to put up $37 million to help stabilize...
...Replaced as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg...