Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Ambassador to the U. S. last week M. Paul May. "M. May," exulted the Jewish Telegraph Agency, "will be the first Jewish ambassador in Washington since the Marquess of Reading represented England here during the World War. M. May is married to a Rothschild." He is at present Belgian Minister to Brazil. ∙Recently returned to Germany after conferences with U. S. financiers and a chat with President Hoover, famed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht expressed a most significant opinion...
Thus spoke Professor Ernest Malvoz of the University of Liege last week and Queen Elisabeth made no denial. To all appearances Her Majesty was suspicious of the Belgian Cabinet's official declaration that the deaths of 67 persons in the Meuse valley last fortnight were due solely to "cold fog" (TIME...
Throughout the week Professor Malvoz and other scientists enjoying the confidence of Queen Elisabeth pursued their investigation. Throughout the world, industrialists owning factories from which smoke and gases belch watched anxiously to see whether Her Majesty's investigators would conclude that the "poison fog" which took so many Belgian lives was poisoned by the factories of the Meuse valley. Seldom before in recent history has a Queen so embarrassed the Cabinet of her husband's realm...
During the winters of 1897, 1902, 1911 and last week Belgians experienced the dread phenomenon of "poison fog." In their Royal Palace at Brussels last week King Albert and Queen Elisabeth received dreadful tidings that men, women, animals (no children), were gasping, choking, dying in a fog which filled the valley of the River Meuse from Liege down through Namur. On the fourth day the fog lifted, on the fifth Queen Elisabeth motored through the stricken valley, where 67 human lives had been lost, was rousingly cheered. The Belgian Government officially announced that the deaths were due "solely...
Chief excitement was in the little Belgian Château of Steenockerzeel, near Louvain, where Archduke Otto and his indomitable mother, his seven brothers and sisters have been living for over a year. Night before "the birthday every window in the chateau was ablaze with lights for a birthday dinner. Otto himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe. Ex-Empress Zita, in dead black, her only jewelry a large gold cross, sat at his right. With...