Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British did better in French eyes. Leaving out such sure-fire conservatives as famed old portraitist Augustus John, their exhibition was built around Frenchified Britishers like Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland...
From Hungary: Paul Auer is Hungary's Minister to Paris. He is an international lawyer of Europe-wide reputation, who turned diplomat a year ago. Between World Wars I & II, he was a frequent legal adviser to the French Government and acted for the U.S. legation in Switzerland on some cases with which the League of Nations was concerned. Long an advocate of international cooperation and of European federation, Lawyer Auer in 1936 offered a plan to strengthen the League of Nations by adding to it an economic and social council. The League did not adopt this idea...
...Norman Burdett Nash, rector of 91-year-old St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.), looked his part. His close-cropped mustache, his energetic briskness, his ready laugh, seemed to fit the schoolmaster more than the top-rank churchman. Yet among graduates of haughty, hockey-playing St. Paul's it has been no secret that the school and Headmaster Nash have not been an ideal couple...
When he went to St. Paul's in 1939, intimates wondered how he would take to its cloistered tyrannies and traditions. Some faculty members soon found Headmaster Nash's dynamic forthrightness hard to take and some of his proposed changes even harder; most such masters have now left the school. Though St. Paul's and its headmaster could part with some relief, the Bishop-elect took his time about making up his mind...
Died. Max Warburg, 79, famed international Hamburg banker, brother of Manhattan bankers Paul and Felix Warburg; after long illness; in Manhattan. Though a Jew, he remained in his homeland after Hitler rose to power, devoted himself to aiding and rescuing Jews marked for persecution, finally in 1939 fled to the U.S., in 1944 became a U.S. citizen...