Word: michels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Stock Exchange last week a 10,000-share block of Dome Mines Ltd. (gold) was sold at 16¼ a share. The seller: Wall Street's Clifford Michel, Dome Mines president. Next day, when Dome cut its quarterly dividend (from 25? Canadian to 17½?), the value of the 10,000 shares dropped $11,250. Then, before anybody could cry "inside unloading," Clifford Michel stepped up, canceled the sale, and gave his reasons...
...most popular preacher in Paris is Jesuit Father Michel Riquet. "The French are better Christians today than they used to be," says Père Riquet. "There are more of them; they pray more and go more often to church...
...second city of France, resembles in many ways the San Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...
...Russian-made cousin: Mikki Maus. Some names of the original Mickey, elsewhere: Miki Kuchi (Japan), Miguel Ratoncito (Spain), Michel Souris (France), Musse Pigg (Sweden), Camondongo Mickey (Brazil), El Raton Mickey (Argentina), Mikel Mus (Greece...
...Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring Maurice Chevalier. A special award went to Roberto (Open City) Rossellini's Italian Paisa (Country Town). French Gerard Philipe was honored as the year's best actor for his work...