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Died. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, 74, one of the world's big munitions makers; in Paris. Hawk-nosed, trim-mustached, elegant, cynical, softspoken, he was the archetype of the cinethriller version of a mysterious merchant of death. He impartially sold arms to most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financi...
Meanwhile two precious metals groups continue to prosper. Since Ihe U.S. remains technically on a gold bullion standard, the Treasury must accept gold at $35 per ounce when offered. Biggest offerer remains South Africa, where production has not been restricted for fear of political repercussions. Much less excusably, the Government also maintains its silver purchase scheme, which holds the domestic price at an artificial 71?. However tough it may get about nonessential gold mining in the U.S., the Administration is still not tough enough to cope with the Congressional Silver bloc...
...firm of Goldwater & Flynn, which prudently takes no Federal or State business, has prospered throughout thick years & thin, and unquestionably will continue to prosper. For all of the 1,349,711 citizens of The Bronx (a population larger than that of any of 15 States; greater than that of the South's three largest cities put together-Houston, New Orleans. Louisville) know Ed Flynn is a solid character, who always delivers when he gives his word. They know he has never had real ambitions outside The Bronx-that he loves it from the zoo (which...
These sidelights are the best of United We Stand. The narration (Lowell Thomas) is patronizing, the script (Prosper Buranelli) undistinguished. Commentary, photography and score get in each other's way. Net result is a warning to future producers that it takes more to make historical documentaries than an animated file of old rotogravure sections...
After the war he played both sides of a Socialist split, formed his own group in Aubervilliers, married the simple, homely daughter of Socialist Leader Dr. Georges Claussat. He has since kept Madame Laval in the background. He began to prosper as a legal fixer, moved to a swank home in Paris, wangled an amnesty law for defeatists through the Chamber, and snuggled up to influential Joseph Caillaux...