Word: visscher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...print shows Adam and Eve with a feline between them; Rembrandt represents The Holy Family itself "... With Cat"; there is also the famed cat of Visscher (1629-62), earliest of master line engravers, copies of which are now rare indeed. The prints used for Godey's Lady's Book reveal how widespread was puss's honored position in 19th Century society. The best ladies were seldom seen without a cat or cats, which were, in fact, so numerous that children fell over them in parlors...
...Conference of the Institute of International Politics at Chicago, where birds of another feather flocked together. Some of the steady and conscientious who recently addressed the gathering in the Windy City were: Dr. Herbert Kraus, Professor of International Law at KÖnigsberg University; Dr. Charles de Visscher, Professor of International Law at Ghent University; Sir Valentine Chirol (see above...
Chief topics of discussion were the League of Nations and the World 'Court. Dr. Visscher held a strong brief for the League. "It is," he said, "the centre and rallying point of all peaceful forces." Over the question of the Court the leaders of the Conference disagreed. Dr. J. W. Garner asserted that without such a Court and a definite codification, international law was meaningless. Dr. Quincy Wright had a different opinion. "The time is not ripe," he said, "for a codification of international law." Dr. Kraus supported Dr. Wright. There was, however, no debate. Members of the Institute...
...Charles de Visscher of Belgium, Professor of International Law at Ghent University, whose subject is International Problems of France, Belgium and Western Europe...