Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago swart, dynamic, 70-year-old Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Director-General of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., one of the world's largest producers of crude petroleum, married his third wife, Charlotte Mina Knack, a German (TIME, June...
...leader in the fight to get live musicians back into theatres and dance halls was swart, hard-fisted James C. Petrillo, president of Chicago's Federation of Musicians. Last week he launched his most daring offensive against music canners by forbidding any member of the Chicago union to make a record, beginning Feb. 1, 1937, without permission of his executive board. Many called the edict brave, more declared it impracticable. But possibly it might be the first move in a campaign of national proportions...
Specifically, the terse, determined Polish officer who has for some months past, been settling himself in a Dictator's saddle, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz (TIME, July 27), was host in Warsaw last week to the Chief of the Rumanian General Staff, swart, secretive General Nicolas Samsonovici. While these two great military figures conferred, Polish and Rumanian diplomats finished up three weeks work, the effect of which is to revive in full force the 1921 treaty of mutual assistance between their two heavily-armed states, each larger than Italy and nearly as potent...
...City. It fitted naturally into Transamerica Corp.'s branch-banking setup. San Franciscans had another and more popular explanation: that was the bad blood between Banker Giannini and Arnold John Mount, broad-shouldered, bespectacled head of Bank of Oakland. The purchase was spite work. Snapped Lawrence Mario Giannini, swart, enigmatic heir apparent to his father's banking empire: "Ridiculous nonsense...
...Olympic Games well-publicized as high-strung, hard-boiled contests of national brawn, the fact that the original Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last...