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...office wall, then call as he sat down at his desk "Et maintenant, ou est mon Weygand?" Loyal, capable General Max Weygand, member of the superior War Council, was always there. Despite the fact that he had been Chief Assistant, almost a second son to Marshal Foch since the outbreak of the war, General Weygand never dreamed of sitting down in the marshal's presence, never called him by his first name. Marshal Foch was appreciative...
...member of its export department, was an important factor in building up the company's tremendous export field. When Standard was dissolved in 1911, Mr. Teagle (a vice president and a director at 33) became president of Imperial Oil, Ltd., then and now Standard's Canadian subsidiary. With the outbreak of the War, the tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey...
...Smilovits, second violin, Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most...
...present Duc was graduated by the French Naval Academy. He retired to specialize in physics, returned to the navy at the outbreak of the War, in which he won the tiny but coveted rosette of the Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...
...Leavenworth outbreak awoke the Federal Government to its prison responsibilities. Though wardens' reports had reiterated figures on overcrowding, the only Federal prison reform of recent years was when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assistant Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken...