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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When they landed at Dunkerque, France, before proceeding to St. Ingbert, the six Loewenstein servants all said that M. Le Capitaine had been on board at the beginning of the flight and was discovered not to be on board when the plane was flying 4,000 feet above mid-Channel...
Count Van de Ponthose, close Brussels associate of M. le Captaine, cried: "When one is of the house of Loewenstein, one does not commit suicide!" A rival ogre of finance, M. Henry Drefus, chairman of British Celanese and a ruthless combatant with Ogre Loewenstein, commented at London in three words: "I am sorry...
...awful to behold, last week, was the indignation of M. Aristotle Tsiflakos, Editor of the Royalist news organ Apogevmotini ("Afternoon News"), who had believed, until last month, with other foes of Venizelos that the founder of the present Greek Republic was definitely retired and pass...
Adroit in arousing public sentiment, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney, M. P., builder in charge of the R-100, last week gave a tea party. Fifty guests, including several M. P.'s, mounted a staircase with mahogany balustrades, inspected a kitchen equipped with electric stoves, visited 39 sleeping cabins, each with a window and beds. Mrs. Burney, onetime Chicago debutante, was hostess...
...friends sat at the baths discussing an ancient and powerful kingdom, an ideal commonwealth which had sunk into the sea: Atlantis. Others took up the tale; medieval writers made much of it; Brazilian legends still stimulate searching parties. The bank itself has been thoroughly mapped by H. M. S. Challenger (1873-76), the German ship Gazelle (1874-76), the French ship Travailleur (1880), the U. S. ship Blake (1877), the expedition of H. S. H. Prince of Monaco, the German Validivia expedition...