Word: westphalia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warburg family derives its name from Warburg, a town in Westphalia, where Warburgs lived as long ago as 1400. At some time during the Sixteenth Century the family moved to Hamburg. Here, in 1798, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since the founding of the Warburg firm-130 years ago-a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg; no person not a Warburg has ever reached a dominant position. Comparatively, the Morgans are parvenus...
Hamburg-American Decision. The Hamburg-American Line last week decided to abandon Boston as a terminal for its Westphalia, Thuringia and Cleveland. Henceforth they will make New York their U. S. port...
Died. Princess Laetitia Napoleon Bonaparte, 59, aunt of King Vittorio Emanuele ILL; widow of Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, onetime (1870-73) King of Spain; daughter of Prince ("Plon Plon") Napoleon; granddaughter of Jerome Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon I and King of Westphalia, who married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore) ; hence cousin of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, onetime (1905-06) Secretary of the Navy and (1906-09) U. S. Attorney General; at Turin, Italy...
Franz Von Oy is a native of Westphalia. He studied at the Institut fur Seeverkehr and Weltwirtshaft in Kiel, taking his doctor's degree last year. It was during his studies there, in the field of social economics, that he first conceived the idea of pursuing his studies in the United States. "From the books that I read by American scholars, I perceived that I could learn much from these men. I chose Harvard because there I thought I could best get what I wanted...
...occupied on the ground that Germany wilfully defaulted in delivery of reparations. According to the London Agreement of last year (TIME, Aug. 25), the Ruhr was to have been evacuated by Aug. 15, 1925. Düsseldorf, Duisberg and Ruhrort in Rhennish Prussia and not in the Ruhr (Westphalia) are also to be evacuated by that date...