Word: bertha
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...Bertha. The Krupps followed strictest rules of primogeniture, loading the whole of family wealth and power upon the eldest child. Siblings were absorbed into the firm, but only as drab underlings. After Fritz's death in 1902, the succession fell to his daughter, Bertha, and led to the long reign of a king-consort, Gustav von Bohlen und Hal-bach. Hand-picked by the Kaiser to marry the munitions business, he was also granted the right to use the Krupp name and to pass it along, though only for one generation and only to his eldest...
...Bertha Hecht, a 66-year-old widow in San Mateo, Calif., turned over her inherited portfolio of blue-chip stocks worth $533,161 to a representative of Wall Street's venerable Harris, Upham & Co. Seven years later, she found her fortune cut in half. She is still fighting to recoup her losses...
...buildings for its archaeological memory book. "Unfortunately," says Curator Robert Vogel, "the Smithsonian can offer nothing but sympathy. The mill has too many owners, and it would take an enormous amount of money to save it." Even old mill hands express little nostalgia at Amoskeag's passing. Mrs. Bertha Halde, 84, has fond memories of her girlhood days as a weaver of gingham, but she says of the destruction plan: "That's progress. The buildings are no good anyway, are they? They...
...Died. Bertha Spafford Vester, 90, Jerusalem's Florence Nightingale, who cared for thousands of Christians, Moslems and Jews under four flags (Turkish, British, Jordanian and Israeli); in Jerusalem. Called "Ummuna" (mother of us all) by her Arab friends, the ex-Chicagoan (who moved to the Holy City in 1881 with her parents) treated both British and Turkish soldiers wounded in the city during World War I, Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 war. Her Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now -with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic-one of the best...
...BERTHA GODFREY is a quick-tempered housewife from Tallapoosa Co., Ala. When a white woman's car smashed into hers and the police chief who investigated the accident said it was her fault, she snapped at him, "Just because I'm a Negro woman you want to treat me like this...