Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, husband of Bertha Krupp,* spoke last week in Essen at the unveiling of a monument to the 13 employes of the Krupp Works who were killed by French occupation troops in a 1923 riot. Said he: "Every German should think daily and hourly of this miserable French sanguinary act. What the French did to the Germans cries for vengeance and revenge. How fervently we must hate has been taught us by the French. This hate should be holy to us. It should be handed down as a legacy from generation to generation until that...
...Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...sale to one Vincent Bendix, head of the Bendix Co., for $3,000,000. Mr. Bendix, they hoped, would neither dilapidate it nor try to carry the Palmer torch. Characteristic was the stipulation postponing his occupancy until the end of November, in order that, last Saturday, Granddaughter Bertha Palmer's presentation to society might be staged in its hallowed halls...
...opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite and defended by another, both Jews. A woman Socialist, Bertha Mailly, also ran. Mrs. Pratt was expected to win because "Broadway's Congressman" is normally Republican. She made a vigorous campaign, renouncing weekends in the country all summer and fall...
...York are: Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman, Bishop of Chelmsford; Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Burham; Frank Theodore Woods, Bishop of Winchester; and Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Potent have been the Archbishops of Canterbury in English history. Augustine (597-605) established Christianity in England. Bertha, queen of the fourth Saxon king of Kent, Aethelbert, was already a Christian and gave Augustine a church at Canterbury, then a seaport. Thomas Becket (1162-70), warrior-bishop, first helped Henry II subordinate Church to State. But when he became Archbishop of Canterbury he fought for Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered...