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Scheming, ambitious third son of a Dutch sailor, Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding quit his job in an Amsterdam bank at 22 to seek his fortune with The Netherlands Trading Society in the East Indies. He quit the Society to seek his fortune with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was director of a little company with a big name: The Royal Dutch Company for the Working of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies. When Kessler died in 1900, Royal Dutch had wells all over the Dutch East Indies and markets all over the East. Deterding succeeded...
...Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian provinces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia but also the valued Ukraine. Leon Trotsky had been the chief Soviet figure during the negotiations. The Bolshevik delegation had included a soldier, sailor, peasant, worker...
...richest rewards among the four new peerages, two baronetcies, 35 knighthoods and miscellaneous decorations distributed went to a gifted scientist who has brought his subject to the masses and a sailor who has brought the British Navy up to snuff. His Majesty was graciously pleased to add Sir James Jeans (The Mysterious Universe, etc.) and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield to the Order of Merit (British membership limited...
...pair of local boys, Harry Stella and Allen Bergner. Born within eight months of one another (the year before thg U. S. entered the Great War), young Stella, son of an Italian immigrant, wanted to be a soldier; young Bergner, son of a German immigrant, wanted to be a sailor. Playmates from boyhood, both made the football team at Kankakee High School: Stella at right tackle, Bergner at left tackle. When they were graduated, Stella went to West Point, Bergner to Annapolis...
...enter the Congress with his International Ladies Garment Workers (TIME, Nov. 21). Many another believed the existence of a "permanent" rival would chasten A. F. of L.'s more pugnacious leaders and make the Federation "see light." Some of the younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond his stand for Peace with Honor, appeal directly to A. F. of L. rank & filers to override William Green and re unite on C. I. O. terms. Mr. Lewis neatly suppressed that move. Then he permitted every union president worth mentioning, Bridges & Curran...