NOTAS

1939

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Sir Alexander Korda (16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956) was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.

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Annabella (14 July 1907 – 18 September 1996) was a French cinema actress who appeared in 46 films between 1927 and 1952, including some Hollywood films during the late 1930s and 1940s

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Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work. As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!". Playing villainous German roles during the Great War, he became known as "The Man You Love to Hate".

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Deneys Reitz (1882—1944), son of Francis William Reitz, was a Boer soldier, South African soldier in the First World War, and politician.

While in exile in Madagascar he wrote about his experience of the Boer War, so that, when it was eventually edited and published in 1929 as Commando: A Boer Journal Of The Boer War, it still had the freshness and detail of an account written soon after the war. Not only is the account very well written and an important source for the Second Boer War, but his family connections (his father was State Secretary of the Transvaal) and sheer luck provide for a unique account because he was present at virtually every major event of the war.

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José Caeiro da Mata (Arraiolos, 6 de Janeiro de 1877 — Lisboa, 3 de Janeiro de 1963), também grafado J. C. da Matta, foi um jurista, professor catedrático de Direito e político português que, entre outras funções, foi deputado durante a Monarquia Constitucional, diplomata, reitor da Universidade de Lisboa, administrador do Banco de Portugal, juiz do Tribunal Permanente de Justiça Internacional e Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros e da Educação Nacional do regime do Estado Novo. Foi sócio da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa e da Academia Portuguesa da História, a cuja direcção presidiu.

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La manécanterie des Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois

Le projet de la manécanterie a vu le jour en 1906 sur l'idée de deux étudiants en vacances à l'abbaye de Tamié (près d'Albertville en Savoie), Paul Berthier et Pierre Martin, qui voulaient créer une structure itinérante sans attachement à une paroisse ou une cathédrale, rompant ainsi avec la tradition millénaire du chœur d'enfants. L'année suivante, l'idée se concrétisa par les premières représentations qui eurent un succès rapide et grandissant.

C'est en 1924 après avoir découvert cette chorale lors d'une messe en 1918 que l'abbé Fernand Maillet prit la direction de la maerienécant, à laquelle il donna son envol définitif et international. Elle gagna très vite une réputation mondiale, jusqu'au Vatican où les papes Pie XII, puis Jean XXIII lui conférèrent ses lettres de noblesse. Le succès sans précédent de cette formation donna une impulsion décisive à un renouveau du chant choral dans l'ensemble de l'Europe, qui se concrétisa dans les années 1950 par la fédération des Pueri Cantores, encore en activité aujourd'hui. En 1945, le film La Cage aux rossignols (qui aura droit à son remake en 2004 avec Les Choristes) contribua largement à la renommée de la Manécanterie.

L'abbé Maillet dirigea la chorale jusqu'à sa mort le 20 février 1963.1 L'abbé Roger Delsinne, son second pendant plus de vingt ans, prit la succession jusqu'en 1978, date de son décès.2 La direction musicale de la Manécanterie fut ensuite assurée par un ancien soliste des Petits Chanteurs, Bernard Houdy, et ce jusqu'en 1992. Rodolphe Pierrepont, lui aussi ancien soliste des Petits Chanteurs, lui succéda jusqu'en 2000.

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Paul Guillaume van Zeeland (11 November 1893 – 22 September 1973) was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic

politician and statesman.

He was born in Soignies.

Van Zeeland was a professor of law and later director of the Institute of Economic Science at the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Leuven), and vice-governor of the National Bank of Belgium.

In March 1935 he became the Prime Minister of a government of national unity (a coalition comprising the three major parties: Catholics, Liberals and Socialists). Given decree powers, he was able to abate the economic crisis the country was going through, by devaluing the currency and resorting to expansive bugdetary policies

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Thomas Whittemore (1871 – 1950) was a scholar, archaeologist and the founder of the Byzantine Institute of America. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1871. His good personal relationship with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder and the first president of the Turkish Republic, enabled him to gain permission from the Turkish government to start the preservation of the Hagia Sophia mosaics in 1931.

In 1948, he and Paul A. Underwood, from the Byzantine Institute of America and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, sponsored a programme for restoration of the Chora Church in Istanbul.

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Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata (born in Venice on 19 November 1877; died in Rome on 16 November 1947) was an Italian businessman and politician.

Count Volpi developed utilities which brought electricity to Venice, northeast Italy, and the Balkans by 1903.[1]

In 1911-1912, he acted as a negotiator in ending the Italo-Turkish War.[2]

He was the governor of the colony of Tripolitania[3] from 1921 to until 1925.

As Italy's Finance Minister from 1925 until 1928, he successfully negotiated Italy's World War I reparations with the United States[4] and with England,[5] and pegged the value of the lira to the value of gold.[6] He was replaced in July of 1928 by Antonio Moscini.[7]

He also founded the Venice Film Festival. His son is automobile racing manager Giovanni Volpi.

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William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (January 25, 1891 – February 15, 1967) was an American diplomat, journalist, and novelist. Although in his youth he was considered something of a radical, he later became an outspoken anticommunist.

9 Fevereiro

Fliche, Augustin (Joseph Henri Savinien)

sex: m; b. Nov 19, 1884 in Montpellier, France – d. Nov 19, 1951 in Montpellier, France; country/nation/culture: French; field of study: history of Christianity, history of the churches

15 Fevereiro

Jean Sarment (de son vrai nom Jean Bellemère) est un acteur et écrivain français né à Nantes le 13 janvier 1897 et mort à Boulogne-Billancourt le 29 mars 1976.

Nommé administrateur de la Comédie-Française en juillet 1944, il ne prendra pas ses fonctions

21 Fevereiro

Othon Mathieu Eugène Loupart (Moresnet,1891-1962) was lid van het presidium van de raad van bestuur van Philips.

Loupart werd geboren in wat toen nog Neutraal-Moresnet heette. Omdat daar de Eerste Wereldoorlog woedde, vluchtte hij in 1915 naar Rotterdam, waar hij de Handelshogeschool ging volgen.

In 1916 trad hij in dienst bij de Inkoopafdeling van Philips. Omdat hij daar onvoldoende mogelijkheden zag, wilde hij solliciteren bij de Tabaksindustrie v/h Gebr. Philips te Maastricht, die eigendom was van neven van Anton Philips.

Naar verluidt werd hij hierop door Anton Philips teruggehaald en in het diepe gegooid, en wist in snel tempo buitenlandse orders binnen te halen. In 1928 werd hij een der directeuren van de Vennootschap

Omstreeks deze tijd begon het medium radio aan zijn opmars, en werd Loupart ingezet bij de organisatie van de verkoop van radiotoestellen. Hij werkte bij een aantal projecten nauw samen met Herman van Walsem, die jurist was en hij ontpopte zich tevens als een denker die een serie strategische discussiestukken produceerde (Principiele Zienswijzen) die het fundament legden voor de bundeling van verkoopkantoren en fabrieken in geïntegreerde nationale organisaties verspreid over de wereld. Zo werd hij een der beoogde opvolgers van Anton Philips, die zich in 1939 als president zou terugtrekken.

Op 13 mei1940 week hij uit naar Engeland (op doorreis uiteindelijk naar de Verenigde Staten) op een Brits oorlogsschip, samen met Anton Philips, Frans Otten, en Herman van Walsem en tegelijk met de Nederlandse regering. Frits Philips bleef in Eindhoven om daar het bedrijf in oorlogstijd te leiden.

Na de bevrijding keerde Loupart met de rest van de Philips top terug naar Eindhoven en zou hij de commerciële organisatie van het concern internationaal verder uitbouwen. Met name stimuleerde hij de belangstelling van Philips voor het medium televisie.

22 Fevereiro

William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech KG, GCMG, PC (11 April 1885 – 14 February 1964), known as William Ormsby-Gore until 1938, was a British Conservative politician and banker.

23 Fevereiro

Joseph Jules Brévié né à Bagnères-de-Luchon le 12 mars 1880-1964) est un administrateur colonial, gouverneur général de l'Afrique occidentale française (AOF) et de l'Indochine française, également ministre de Pierre Laval.

Passionné d'histoire et d'ethnologie, ce fut le promoteur d'une approche scientifique de la colonisation

26 Fevereiro

Gisèle d'Assailly (Paris 8e, 1er avril 1904 - Paris 13e, 15 mars 1969) est une femme de lettres, journaliste, présidente des Éditions Julliard (1962-1964).

Après des études de lettres, elle entre dans le journalisme et l’édition. Elle fait ses premières armes journalistiques au Figaro et à Femina.

Après la guerre elle tient la chronique de mode aux Nouvelles littéraires. Elle épouse en 1945 l’éditeur René Julliard et devient à la mort de celui-ci, Présidente des Éditions Julliard. Elle donnera des conférences en Égypte, Finlande, Suède, Afrique noire et aux Antilles. Ses ouvrages féminins lui avaient gagné l’audience d’un vaste public féminin

5 Março

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ˈkʲerʲɪnskʲɪj]; 2 May [O.S. 22 April] 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

Kerensky served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until Vladimir Lenin was elected by the All-Russian Congress of Soviets following the October Revolution. He died in exile.

13 Março

Georges Suarez (1890 - 1944) était un écrivain, essayiste et journaliste français. Pacifiste puis collaborationniste (il a été éditeur du journal sous contrôle allemand Aujourd'hui, succédant au rédacteur Henri Jeanson), il a également été biographe de Pétain et de plusieurs figures de la Troisième République. Il fut le premier journaliste condamné à mort lors de l'épuration

ExecutedToday.com » 1944: Georges Suarez, collaborationist editor

16 Março

Alexander Uninsky (Russian: Александр Юнинский, Aleksandr Yuninskij, pronounced You-nin-skee; 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1910 – 19 December 1972) was a Russian-American classical pianist.

Alexander Uninsky was born in Kiev (then in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine). He initially studied piano there in the conservatory which had been opened in 1913, and whose other graduates included Vladimir Horowitz and Alexander Brailowsky.[1]

He subsequently moved to Paris in 1923, where he studied with Lazare Lévy. He was awarded the conservatory's first prize for piano. In 1932 he won the second International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition[2]. In fact, Uninsky tied for first place with the blind Hungarian pianist Imre Ungar, and the judges decided to award victory on the basis of the toss of a coin. Ungar lost.

In 1955, he took up a teaching post at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, where he numbered among his pupils the Canadian composer Bruce Mather. Mather commemorated his teacher in his 1974 composition In memoriam Alexander Uninsky[3]

Subsequently he taught at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. His pupils included Jeffrey Swann, David Morgan, Carmen Alvarez, Boaz Heilman, Henry Doskey, David Golub and Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak.

He died in Dallas in 1972, aged 62.

17 Março

René Leriche (12 October 1879, Roanne, Loire - 28 December 1955, Cassis, near Marseille) was a famous French surgeon.

René Leriche gave his name to two syndromes:

▪Leriche's syndrome - Impotence and buttock claudication and absent pulses in the groin and legs due to saddle embolus or atherosclerosis at the aortic bifurcation.

▪Sudek-Leriche syndrome - Aseptic necrosis of bone following injury (=Sudek atrophy)