Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father of Big Business. He happened to have done it in oil. Had he been younger and living in Pittsburgh instead of Cleveland it might have been steel, or in Chicago it might have been meat, for he had what has been called "the finest organizing mind since Napoleon...
Like everything else in the life of Ian Anderson-Brüning since he left Germany in 1935, last week's appointment went unnoticed by the German press. Exile Brüning, who is critical of present-day Germany but not bitter, resembles Exile Napoleon Bonaparte only in that he is currently writing his memoirs. At Harvard, where he delivered a series of Godkin lectures on Germany last year, Herr Brüning will next term be a full-fledged faculty member. As such he will give a course on international economic policies, tutor a few advanced students, draw...
...slasher's knife. Soon police were able to report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated. Ex-Watchman Joseph Cassidy admitted he had knifed a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, by Academy Founder Charles Willson Peale; had hacked at the 22 other paintings and finally hauled off at a marble group of Columbus discovering America, chipping it severely...
...Roosevelt was Mr. Right, but to official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith and trust in Roosevelt the victor of 1932, 1934, 1936 that the officers of the Grand Army had in Napoleon the victor of Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena...
...times as much money as has been authorized for Washington's Jefferson Memorial is involved in another scheme to honor Patriot Jefferson at St. Louis. Though St. Louis, onetime capital of the great Louisiana Territory which President Jefferson bought from Napoleon in 1803, already has a Jefferson Memorial built for the Exposition of 1903,* real-estate interests put through a scheme to sell to the Government 37 blocks of river front property to become a national park. A taxpayers' injunction, obtained in September, has temporarily halted work...