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...Belgium. From Ostend to Manhattan came a cablegram signed "Walter Hagen," announcing that 143 strokes over the Ostend links had proved few enough for the suave sender to list the 1924 Belgian Open Championship among his triumphs. Second, Aubrey Boomer (French) 146; third, Frank Ball (English) 150; fourth, Gil Nichols (American...
...resorts on the continent. The Orchestra plans to leave New York on June 24th, taking passage on the Olympic for England, arriving in London July 2nd. The men will remain at the Hotel Savoy for about one month, playing various engagements, and will leave the first of August for Ostend, Paris and Luzerne, taking several side trips...
...Vanderlip went to Europe in 1918 to study financial and industrial conditions which had resulted from the war. He was a delegate to the International Conference of Commerce and Industry which was held at Ostend, Belgium; Mr. Vanderlip was also present at the peace conference...
...City Bank of New York City and from 1909 on president. In 1917 he was appointed chairman of War Savings Committee by the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct the sales of War Savings Certificates. He was a delegate to the International Conference of Commerce and Industry held at Ostend, Belgium, and has been at the Peace conference. Mr. Vanderlip is well acquainted with American and European financial conditions...
...that the first excitement is over, the results of the Zeebrugge-Ostend raid may be more carefully estimated. Clearly there were material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the channel at Ostend blocked up, but the chief advantages of the raid were moral. It will probably not take the Germans long to repair the damage, but they will now have to face a reawakened spirit in the British Navy that bodes no good for them. For a long time Zeebrugge and Ostend seem to have held the British in the spell of inaction; they have been regarded...