Word: congo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a good time and become real ladies & gentlemen. That was easy. Father built an $835,000 house on Massachusetts Avenue, entertained lavishly, tipped right & left. When they went abroad King Leopold I of Belgium was his pal, tried, unsuccessfully, to interest Father in a little proposition in the Congo. Writes Evalyn: "It makes me happy to remember now that, after years and years of hard knocks and worry, my daddy was so quickly recognized, when he had riches, as more than just a man with gold." He had a lot of Government bonds...
...Italy and Spain), the Convention was wangled by sporting Britain. Britain's African territories, colonies and protectorates promptly ratified it, as did Belgium. Thus a new fauna and flora safety zone was created from Egypt to the Cape, along Africa's "all-British backbone," in the Belgian Congo, and the British west coast properties of Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast. Most of the specified animals, however, are restricted to territories controlled by the four non-ratifiers...
...shipment of particular interest of 260 plants of the Belgian Congo, was collected by the Second Harvard African Medical Expedition and presented to the Gray Herbarium by Joseph C. Bequaert, assistant professor of Entomology at the Harvard Medical School...
...burly, morose and solitary man. Francqui put aside his gifted money-making (banks, copper) whenever Belgium reached a financial crisis, twice devalued the Belgian franc, invented the foreign exchange medium of the belga (five Belgian francs). Europe called him "The Mystery Man," and "The Copper King of the Congo," where as a young captain he saved for Belgium from the British the territory in which one of the world's richest copper mines, Katanga, was later discovered...
Most remarkable feature of Albert and the Belgians is its cool and friendly probing for the secret of Albert's personality. Nephew of Leopold II, whose exploitation of the Congo brought down international censure upon Belgium and whose dissolute private life outraged his subject,. Albert had not expected to rule. The death of his moody older brother put him in line for the throne. Albert possessed many of the characteristics of his grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times...