Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corporations were restricted to not more than twelve or fewer than three members. The president of a company must be an active participant in its management and president and board are personally liable for all the company's debts. All abuses of the capitalistic system, Finance Minister Marcel Yves Bouthillier said, evolved around the "irresponsibility of the chiefs of the corporations." The new legislation meant no more "monkeying around with other people's money...
Dapper little Swiss President Marcel Pilet-Golaz, who dresses like Anthony Eden, gave audience on Sept. 10 to leaders of the Swiss Nationalist (Nazi) Movement. His office said afterward that the Nationalists assured the President they were not acting and would not act in concert with any foreign power-i.e., Nazi Germany. Nonetheless, democratic Swiss resentment boiled last week and parties representing 126 out of the 187 seats in the Swiss National Council issued a statement publicly regretting that the President had received the Nationalists. Many Swiss smelled "appeasement" by President Pilet-Golaz, the more so because Adolf Hitler...
When he returns he will be in charge of French 7, Romanticism and Realism in Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Until his return the course will be conducted by Marcel Francon, associate professor of Romance Languages...
...secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household and community. The exquisite, shriveling protocols of the formal luncheon are established with a finality, a bland cruelty, at which Marcel Proust might gasp...
...Since Adolf Hitler began to liquidate German scholarship in 1933, every ship from Europe has borne eminent scholars to the U. S. Today many of them teach in U. S. colleges and universities. At Harvard are ex-Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; famed Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; renowned City Planner Martin Wagner; Werner Jaeger, one of the world's most eminent classical scholars...