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Died. Emile Francqui, 72, Belgium's richest man and No. 1 hard money expert; in Brussels. A burly, morose and solitary man. Francqui put aside his gifted money-making (banks, copper) whenever Belgium reached a financial crisis, twice devalued the Belgian franc, invented the foreign exchange medium of the belga (five Belgian francs). Europe called him "The Mystery Man," and "The Copper King of the Congo," where as a young captain he saved for Belgium from the British the territory in which one of the world's richest copper mines, Katanga, was later discovered...
...city back on the Democratic map. This Nominee Kelly proceeded to do largely by promoting a grand jury case against Nominee Wilson charging that, as controller, he had diverted some of a $65,000 city appropriation into his campaign chest. Nominee Wilson, one of whose earliest and richest supporters was a contractor named Jerome ("Jerry") Louchheim, countered by insinuating that Nominee Kelly's backing was largely Jewish. On election day 715,560 Philadelphia voters went to the polls, the greatest number in the city's history for any kind of election. What evidently settled the matter...
Hoarse-voiced Joseph Drummer, one of the shrewdest of Manhattan art dealers, invited critics and the public last week to an exhibition of fancy work. In a season that promises to be one of the richest...
Director Lippert chose Steubenville for his field because of the mixed racial background, which he maintains makes for the richest tone color. The boys who went to sing with him soon learned that they must submit to a strict routine which precluded all roughhousing, all carefree yelling, kept them at practice as much as seven hours a day. When they were ready for concerts Director Lippert bought them bright snappy costumes: for sacred songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived...
...that after the War he felt that every able man should put his best abilities at the disposal of King & Country for Reconstruction. Said he in 1920: "It looks as if some kind of politics was going to be my duty." Lady Tweedsmuir, a moneyed kinswoman of the richest Duke (Westminster), burrows tirelessly in libraries, relieving her husband of much work, ever since he has been too busy himself to dig up details for his historical biographies and romances...