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...brutal comedy. To the referee he mumbled something which he later denied was a request to stop the fight. The referee stepped in front of him, raised Baer's hand in victory. Max Baer was born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from...
Strasbourg. Though there are more German-speaking than French-speaking Alsatians, Alsace today is more solidly French in sympathy than it was at the time of the Armistice. There are three reasons: 1) Nationalist and pro-French agitation before the War kept Germany from developing Rhine traffic at Strasbourg; under the French booming Strasbourg now ships over 5,000,000 tons of freight a year. 2) Under Germany Strasbourg breweries and Alsatian wines were practically unknown because of Bavarian and Rheingau competition: contrariwise. Strasbourg beer is now the best in France and her ten breweries pay dividends...
...have before you an Alsatian and a Frenchman who has passed through German schools, through the German army, through a German university and a German prison. Alors, my German education is complete! . . . We don't love the Germans but we have always respected them. We love France, but we want her to be respected. ... In the old days no smoking was allowed in postoffices, and cigars had to be left in the entrance hall, but today you can go to the postoffice with your pipe in your mouth. ... In those days a deputy would call on the prefect...
...wine & liquor imports, which amounted to $17,000,000 annually. Even a big importer thought himself lucky if he cleared $250,000. But in the last half year more than 100 new firms have mushroomed-many with no more than an agreement to handle the output of an obscure Alsatian vineyard. An importer requires little capital but, to be successful, long steeping in the lore of liquor...
...Alsatian pastor-teacher (1740-1826), who founded France's first day nurseries...