Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Milan's "European Conference on the Esthetics of Television," delegates from Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, debated for days about TV ground rules, agreed on nothing but a definition of television's role: "To distract, inform and instruct...
...vice president of the old A.F.L. and a vice president (since its merger last year) of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., president of the International Photo-Engravers' Union of North America (1906-29), sometime author (Labor, Industry and Government); in Manhattan. Short (5 ft. 2 in.), swart and dapper, Luxembourg-born Matthew Woll was long identified with the Republican conservative wing of the U.S. labor movement, fought Communist efforts to infiltrate unions for more than 30 years. Once willed the job of American labor chief by A.F.L. Founder-President Sam Gompers, Woll was blocked by U.M.W. Boss John L. Lewis...
Married. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, 33. blonde elder daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte; and Prince Franz Ferdinand von Hohenberg, 28, grandson of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, touched off World War I; in Luxembourg...
...Order of the British Empire, Luxembourg's Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, Belgium's Order of Leopold, France's Legion of Honor, Italy's Order of Merit, the Vatican's Order of Pius IX, Spain's Order of Isabella the Catholic, Portugal's Order of the Tower and Sword...
...atomic partnership called "Euratom," modeled on the six-nation Coal and Steel Community which France's Monnet bossed until last year. No politician, Economist Monnet has nevertheless made much political progress, claims the support of majorities in the six Parliaments concerned (France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg...