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...controlled by Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "Hearst of Germany" rumored that on President von Hindenburg's 85th birthday next October he will resign and place Germany in the hands of former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm as Regent. At once Munich papers began to clamor for restoration of the Kingdom of Bavaria with former Crown Prince Rupprecht on the Throne. In Berlin last week was Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England." Flatly he asserted, "Germans have learned from their economic distress that monarchy is good for business." He prophesied the "rescue of the Reich" with a Hohenzollern on the Throne. Promptly...
Deadlock, for the time being, seemed to be the significance of the election in Prussia. In Hamburg, Anhalt and Württemberg the Brownshirts won similar pluralities, produced similar deadlocks. In Bavaria, second largest German State, the Fascists last week made their poorest showing, were not able to nose out of first place the locally potent Bavarian People's Party...
...Significance. Thoughtful Germans focused their attention not on the presidential poll last week but on the Diet elections April 24 in Prussia. Hamburg, Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Anhalt. In these elections the parties which grouped themselves last week behind the personality of Hindenburg will be fighting their own battles...
Faber. In 1761 Fabers began making pencils in Bavaria. In 1849 they sent Eberhard Faber to the U. S. to conduct the business. In 1861 he quarreled and started Eberhard Faber Pencil Co. His son & namesake represents the fifth generation of pencil-making Fabers and is famed in the industry although he is vice president of the company while his brother, Lothar, is president. He is chiefly active in the sales department now,, Lothar in manufacturing...
Born in Upper Bavaria in 1878, he has first-memories of the views from his bedroom window, from the frame of which swung a large bead of clear blue glass. "I could swing it from side to side as I pleased, quickly in short jerks or slowly and largely, and its motion seemed always to have a mysterious correspondence with whatever I desired and undertook." Whenever, across the street, the pageant of a funeral procession wound its way up to the cemetery on the hill, with incense burning, bells ringing, people singing and wailing, the child was filled with glee...