Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matisse and Picasso to do his settings, composers like Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud to write his music. Diaghilev fathered the Monte Carlo Company. He loved the Riviera, often took his dancers there to rehearse. When he died in 1929 a few stayed on because Charlotte, the hereditary Princess of Monaco, was interested in them. When Col. Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who had been putting on Russian opera in Paris, went down to take it over, Princess Charlotte was ready to finance him. Nijinsky was no longer there. His brain had cracked and he was in a Swiss...
Came Dec. 15 and the welching of European states on their war debts to the U. S. had almost ceased to be news. Editors tucked it away last week on inside pages, gave front page play to a blast from H. R. H. Prince Louis of Monaco that his Government will ask the U. S. Supreme Court to compel the State of Mississippi to make good on $100,000 worth of its defaulted bonds of 1831 to 1837, now owned by the Principality...
Divorced. By Charlotte Louise Juliette Goyon de Matignon Grimaldi, hereditary princess of Monaco, duchess of Valentinois, 34, only daughter of Monaco's Prince Louis II: Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior, 37, born Count de Polignac, crowned Prince Grimaldi of Monaco at his 1920 wedding; in Monte Carlo. Grounds: some Monaco republicans wanted Prince Pierre for President. To get Louis II's permission for divorce, Charlotte signed over her hereditary rights to the throne to her only son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand...
...Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences, for work in theoretical physics...
Lucidity, Everyone who presents a paper before the A. A. A. S. must deal with Austin Hobart Clark, longtime expert for the Smithsonian Institution on oceanography, sea life, birds and bugs, onetime aide-de-camp to Louis, oceanophilic Prince of Monaco. Mr. Clark is director of the A. A. A. S.'s press service. He must make certain that facts are fit to print. Few men with technical education can express themselves lucidly. From Mr. Clark they learned that "manuscripts and abstracts should be written in the simplest possible language, and in such a way as to be under stood...