Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Often likened to Napoleon, Northcliffe came to fancy the likeness. During his last few years he grew more & more dictatorial, capricious, megalomaniac. Suspicious, he fancied the Daily Mail office was becoming a "family party." He found "someone in the Cashier's Department is a relation of a man in another department, and there are many such cases. The office is a honeycomb of relations end relationships." Dissatisfied with his Advertising Department, he suddenly promoted the Daily Mail hall porter, one Glover, to be its head. He defended his action in a remarkable memorandum: "He [Northcliffe] had long consultations with...
...greatest of U. S. commercial successes. Young, ambitious men, seeking business inspiration, pored over his oft-written success story. A Retail Napoleon was the title one of his biographers took. A Merchant Prince in Deed as Well as in Name was the heading of another. But when Henry Siegel died last week in Lakewood, N. J. at the age of 78, he was neither rich nor remembered. The Retail Napoleon had had his St. Helena as well as his Waterloo. Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster...
With a shrewd suspicion of the probable result, no attempt was made to defend London from air attack. Britain was divided in two, "Redland" and "Blueland." The official problem set "Redland's" commander would have taxed a Napoleon: to defend the mines and factories of northern manufacturing Britain, to preserve a way out of the country for minerals, inward for food and supplies. Real problem of the maneuvers was to test the comparative efficiency of day bombers and interceptors. Redland was given the fastest fighting planes, Blueland the fastest bombers...
Beethoven''; Symphony No. 3 by Conductor Max von Schillings and the Berlin State Orchestra (Columbia, $12)-Ber-lin's big man gives a dramatic reading of the monumental Eroica which Beethoven intended, until his hero took the crown of Emperor, to dedicate to Napoleon...
Mile Marie Meonie Chaptal, granddaughter of the Emperor Napoleon's Minister of the Interior, President of the French National Council of Nurses, delegate of the League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, returned to Geneva lately after a brief inspection of domestic life in the U. S. She did not like what she saw. Opening her report with a few words of praise for President Hoover who received her in the White House, she continued...