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Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.
Mrs. Wenner-Gren, madly jealous of her rival, began to stalk Marion and was not willing to grant a divorce.
Before World War II the island, then known as Hog Island, was the private estate of the Swedish entrepreneur Axel Wenner-Gren.
Alweg was founded by Swedish industrial magnate Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren in January 1953 as Alweg-Forschung, GmbH ( Alweg Research Corporation ), based in Fühlingen, a suburb of Cologne, Germany.
Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren ( 5 June 1881-24 November 1961 ) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s.
By the early 1930s, Wenner-Gren was the owner of Electrolux, and the firm was a leading brand in both vacuum cleaner and refrigerator technology.
There proved to be little foundation to their suspicions that Wenner-Gren was a Nazi agent, notwithstanding the appearance of his yacht ( the world's largest ) along with ships from the Allied Navies at the site of the sinking of the liner SS Athenia on the first day of the war.
The Viking fund was later renamed the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Deloria won the Indian Achievement Award in 1943, and was the recipient of grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation ( 1948 ) and the National Science Foundation ( 1960s ).
It was later renamed the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Wenner-Gren and be
As part of a dual strategy to avoid war via deterrence and appeasement of Germany, British leaders warned that they would go to war if Germany attacked Poland while at the same time tried to avoid war by holding unofficial talks with such would be peace-makers like the British newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, the Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren and another Swedish businessmen Birger Dahlerus who attempted to work out the basis for a peaceful return of Danzig.

Wenner-Gren and wife
individuals whom he trusted and considered worthy of support ... His personal support of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin during the last years of the life of this eccentric genius is but one outstanding example ... He leaves behind him the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research which he built, an international host of friends whom he helped, and a wife whom he cherished and appreciated.

Wenner-Gren and late
The two men became fast friends and Wenner-Gren agreed to finance an expedition to Peru in late 1939.

Wenner-Gren and by
This innovation, conceived by Electrolux founder Axel Wenner-Gren, became a standard feature on generations of future vacuum cleaners.
In 1941, Fejos both stopped making films and travelling to become Director of Research and acting head of the Viking Fund, a non-lucrative association based in New York City and created that same year by Axel Wenner-Gren.

Wenner-Gren and .
New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation.
On a trip to Mexico she had met a very wealthy ( and married ) Swedish financier, Axel Wenner-Gren.
Marion even went as far as to claim that Mrs. Wenner-Gren attempted to shoot her at a post office in Mexico.
Hartford bought Hog Island from Axel Wenner-Gren and changed the name to Paradise Island.
Wenner-Gren also diversified his interests into the ownership of newspapers, banks and arms manufacturers, and acquired many of the holdings of the disgraced safety-match tycoon Ivar Kreuger.
A disconsolate Wenner-Gren retired to his estate in the Bahamas, Hog Island ( now Paradise Island ), where he resumed his friendship with the islands ' governor, the Duke of Windsor.
Wenner-Gren continued his fascination with speculative railway projects, as he collaborated with Canadian W. A. C.
In the 1950s, Axel Wenner-Gren also got involved in the early computer business.
In November 1952, Wenner-Gren helped the company to incorporate.
He soon controlled the company and renamed it ALWAC ( the Axel L. Wenner-Gren Automatic Computer ).

was and reported
A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;
He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.
President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.
The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.
On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.
Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.
It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.
Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.
By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.
The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.
Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.
Supplemental outside reading reports were handled just as in the other sections, the major difference being that there was a noticeably deeper level in the reported outside reading by the married group.
There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.
As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.
On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.
For example, the BBB has reported it was receiving four times as many inquiries about quack devices and 10 times as many complaints compared with two years ago.
Their onrush and retreat, he reported, was accompanied by a great hissing, roaring and rattling.
While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.
The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.
the press reported the same facts in using Harrington's interview, but Lizzie did not suggest at the inquest that Harrington was the killer.
Finally he reported that Nasser was ready to make a concrete commitment in return for Israeli concessions.

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