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Last week, the Association of Watch Manufacturers met at Baden-Baden, Germany, and agreed to production quotas for a more stringent cartelization...
Telegram. From Baden Baden, famed spa, a sick man telegraphed to break the deadlock. His signature read simply "Stresemann." The great Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner wired: "From the start I have regarded skeptically the attempt to establish a Ministry on the basis of a program approved beforehand by the various parties." He continued that, although it seemed "psychologically scarcely possible" for Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them...
...founder of the Ritz Hotels did not choose that curious monosyllable by chance; Ritz was his last name; his first, splendidly enough, was César. The son of a Swiss farmer, his first skirmish among European hostelries occurred when he opened a restaurant in Baden-Baden, the Kurhaus. He boasted that he never forgot a face. But the éclat which attached itself to his restaurant requires a more complete explanation. César Ritz read faces as well as remembering them; he was an instinctive & selective snob, one of those likeable snobs whose hauteur is inherent...
When a man has owned a smart restaurant for a few years he has enough friends to run a hotel. César Ritz bought the Minerva, in Baden Baden, and carried on the tradition of his Kurhaus. Later he bought more hotels and titled people stayed in them. César knew them all by name. When he opened the Carlton in London, he gave an elaborate banquet. The guests were all titled, with the exception of a few very rich Americans; one of these was a banker to whom M. Ritz extended, gratis, all the facilities...
...years following his graduation Professor Coolidge spent almost exclusively in Europe, travelling widely and studying at the University of Berlin, L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques, in Paris, and the University of Freiburg in Baden. It was a Freiburg in Baden that he received his Ph.D. In 1892. During this period he was also active in political affairs, being acting secretary of the American Legation at St. Petersburg in 1890 to 1891; secretary to his uncle, T. J. Coolidge '50, United States Minister to France in 1892, and in 1983 several as secretary of the American Legation at Vienna...