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...other man who helped to squeeze him was his own lieutenant, fiery Wilhelm Frick, chairman of the National Socialist Party in the Reichstag. Without waiting for his leader to make an announcement, Nazi Frick blurted out to a mass meeting at Kempten, Bavaria, the flat declaration that Bruning must quit, that the Nazis would take no part in the movement to re-elect Old Paul by popular vote. The meaning was clear: If Old Paul wanted Nazi support he must get rid of Bruning, a thing Old Paul would hardly do. Handsome Adolf's mustache wiggled convulsively. Here was possible...
When Ludwig II, Bavaria's mad king, wished to honor his friend Wilhelm Richard Wagner on his sist birthday in 1864, he thought a piano would make a nice gift. But something really original in the way of a piano! He commissioned Carl Bechstein, who had been in the trade in Berlin for just eleven years, to make one. Today, visitors to Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth are always shown the large square desk, with drawers, built-in ink-stands and space for a beerstein, which turns out to have a piano inside it. And in Bechstein's house...
...found that the Taft estate left provision for paying the Zoo deficit which now includes that of the Opera (formerly paid separately). Ravinia Park, Chicago's Louis Eckstein is perhaps the only melophile virtually to own an opera since mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria who in the middle of the last century sat many a time alone while his troupe sang for him in a great empty theatre. As president and chief guarantor of Ravinia Opera Mr. Eckstein is in his own way a mad king: he has paid for Ravinia some $1,000,000 in the last...
Died. Nathan Straus, 82, great philanthropist and Jewish leader; of heart disease and high blood pressure; in Manhattan. He was born in Rhenish Bavaria in 1848, son of Lazarus Straus, who came to the U. S. in 1854, settled in Talbotton, Ga. Eldest brother was Isidor (later famed in the building up of Straus stores, victim with his wife of the Titanic disaster in 1912); youngest was Oscar Solomon (first Jew to hold a cabinet post, Secretary of Commerce & Labor, 1906-09, twice Minister, once Ambassador to Turkey; died in 1926). Ruined by the Civil War, the family came...
Both families emerged from the primeval sludge in what is now Bavaria and Württemberg, first attracted attention about the 9th Century as merchants, bankers, warriors, finally ruling princes, but always as rivals. The later Guelphs were backers, supporters of the Papacy. The Ghibellines backed the Holy Roman Empire. In time the names were applied indiscriminately to adherents of either Papal or Imperial parties...