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Mr. Schneider will be the first outsider to run Nestlé since 1922, when banker Louis Dapples was chosen to lead the company after its only financial loss.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2016

Dr. Louis Dapples, 69, banker, president of the international Nestle Chocolate interests; of influenza; in Genoa, Italy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the king went and looked at both Dapples, high and low, before and behind, but there wasn't a hair on one which wasn't on the other as well.

From Popular Tales from the Norse by Dasent, George Webbe

And a sun far off in a shell of silence Dapples my walls for me .

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

The wolves have prey'd, and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.

From Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare, William