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...European Commission. "We can only express the hope that he may be long with us to guide us, lead us, advise and inspire us." At this roar from the British Lion, the other animals in the League Ark took their cue, applauded. Square Head? Dr. Julius Curtius, smooth-shaven German Foreign Minister -the man whose policy of Austro-German Zollverein (customs union) dealt such a blow to M. Briand's presidential chances -conferred privately with Chairman Briand before the Commission...
...Mendelssohn. The House of Rothschild is not so great in Germany today as the House of Mendelssohn. Bankers to the House of Romanov up to 1914, Mendelssohn & Co. suffered temporary eclipse when Germany declared war on Russia, later emerged more potent than before. Sixty-five years old, tall, clean-shaven and of impressive mien, Franz von Mendelssohn did not go to Washington last week. He addressed the congress, whose president he will be next year, from Berlin. "My voice," said Mighty Mendelssohn, "as that of a single individual coming across the ocean, is weak and feeble. But I remind...
...Kreuger & Toll Co., holding company for the great "Swedish Match Trust," for 21 industrial banking and real estate operations, for the Grangesberg Co. iron mines (Europe's biggest), for the control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Master of its many operations, getter of its match monopolies is close-shaven,quick-speaking Ivar Kreuger, self-made, much publicized "world's richest bachelor." To shareholders last week he reported that Kreuger & Toll during 1930 earned $24,163,000 from dividends and interest received, against $14,278,000 from those sources in 1929. Trading profits however were $8,626,000 against...
...imitation of Spanish words to it in the manner of Raquel Meller. One afternoon he nearly lost his mustache. He has had the same one for 15 years. A Manhattan theatrical barber picked it out for him. He says that if he ever loses it he will play smooth shaven. On this day he came in just in time to see a guest about to throw the mustache away, mistaking it for hair combings on Chaplin's makeup table...
...Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive jaw, a wide, clear eye. He has written many books. Some of them: The A B C of Relativity, Education and the Good Life, Problems of Philosophy, Proposed Roads to Freedom, Why Men Fight, Marriage...