Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governments, coming hat in hand to ministers, kings, and emperors of assorted nationalities to beg orders for his guns. By the time of his death he was an intimate of Wilhelm I, 1870 conquerer of France. He was also an officer of the French Legion of Honor (one of Napoleon III's earlier generosities) and a Knight of the Russian Order of Peter the Great...
...Columbia production "Twentieth Century," at RKO Keith's this week, affords an excellent antidote for Divisional post mortems or a pleasing apertif for finals, as the case may be Based on the show hit "Napoleon of Broadway," this saga of the stage was dressed up to Hollywood style by Ben Heeht and Charles Mac Arthur who gave it new lines, exaggerated the heroic, and knew John Barrymore would have the lead. Unlike its predecessors of the "Shanghai Express" variety, "Twentieth Century" has no villains, bandits, or languishing females, but is graced with a frantic, egomaniae producer (John Barrymore), his irrepressive...
...shuttling back & forth to the U. S., stayed on in France. He made his fortune as a private banker, built it up by investments in U. S. banks (Chase), railroads (Great Northern, Northern Pacific) and public utilities. He has given France a $5,000,000 art collection, a hospital, Napoleon's Park at Malmaison. Napoleon's famed Marshal's Table, all on the theory that art treasures should stay at home. France has given him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and honorary citizenship in Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College...
Confusing to the untraveled are the myriad land dots in the eastern Mediterranean, which loosely make up the Isles of Greece. Three of the largest are of current political interest. Far west, due south of Italian Sicily is the Island of Malta which revolted against Napoleon in 1798 and was voluntarily annexed to Britain by the Treaty of Paris (1814). Here the Knights of Malta established a hospital, a fortress, and the medieval forerunner of the Red Cross after the Crusades. Here the British Government has had much trouble in recent years with a population largely Italian and predominantly Roman...
...bank lending him ?1,200,000 in return for the right to issue banknotes and conduct a general banking business. The South Sea Bubble nearly ruined them in 1720. The early success of the Young Pretender (Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II) started a run in 1745. Napoleon's wars forced them to suspend payments in 1797. But the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was not to be downed by war, rebellion, or civil commotion. This year she celebrates her 240th birthday...