Word: melchett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family's pet biographer, with Victoria the Widow and her Son and The Romance of Windsor Castle to his credit...
Fortnight ago Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum announced that Sir Robert Ludwig Mond had given it Charles Sandre's toy army. Sir Robert is a trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum, a brother of the late British nickel tycoon, Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett. While the Museum was waiting for the army to arrive, its director, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms...
...protest against German antiSemitism, Henry Ludwig Mond, Baron Melchett, British chemical tycoon, half-Jewish member of the Church of England, embraced Judaism in a liberal London synagog...
...Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, honorary doctorates of law by the University of the State of New York;* to blind Helen Keller, the Pictorial Review $5,000 Achievement Prize for completing the $1,000,000 fund campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind; to Steelman Charles M. Schwab, the Melchett medal of the English Institute of Engineers: to Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, the Goethe medal and a certificate signed by President von Hindenburg...
...Save Us! Arab-Jewish riots, Wailing Wall troubles, world Depression, the death of two great leaders (Baron Melchett and Louis Marshall) and the slowing-up of Zionism's executive machinery made Dr. Weizmann's presidency a difficult one. But many delegates believe he was too conciliatory. Boomed bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise last fortnight at the Congress: "A vote for the administration of Dr. Weizmann is a vote for the present British regime! . . . An eternal disgrace! . . . You have sat too long at British feasts!" Trembling, still pale from a recent throat operation, Dr. Weizmann hurried from...