Word: dreyfus
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...persecution has, in many ways, been similar to that of Alfred Dreyfus, thirty years ago. Both were the objects of popular calumny. Both were public servants acting in the performance of their, duty. The happy difference lies in the fact that whereas Dreyfus was convicted, Garrett is free...
...most odious reactionaries ordered this appointment!" stormed Le Populaire (Socialist). "At no moment in the history of the Third Republic, not even at the time of the Dreyfus affair, has any general so hostile to the Republic been elevated to this post. . . . General Weygand is ready for a coup d'etat at the head of the Army...
...unofficial statement made yesterday afternoon, C. W. Dreyfus '31, said that the annual December concert of the Glee Club, usually held at the Symphony Ball in Boston, has been definitely called off, due to the strenuous rehearsing for a joint concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The concert, which will be led by Serge Koussevitzky, will take place during the week of the Bach Festival, beginning Monday, March...
...Banker Dreyfus not only collected the works of great artists, he tried whenever possible to have those works the portraits of great Renaissance characters. There is Philip the Handsome of Spain; Princess Beatrice of Aragon; the Princess Medea, daughter of that great swashbuckler and Bergamese Bravo, Bartolommeo Colleoni; Giovanni Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna, and the dashing Guiliano dei Medici, murdered in church by the Pazzi...
...traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers. He is president ("head factor") of the firm. Employes are unable to recall a single internationally important deal which any of the other brothers put through. They hasten to add that once the Dreyfus collection arrives in the U. S. it will not be put up for auction. "Duveen Brothers," a manager explained solemnly last week, "has its important private customers...