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...bachelor quarters first came his mother Bertha, 71, after whom German troops fondly named the famed "Big Bertha" cannon in World War I. Other relatives followed, presenting greetings and family gifts. Courteously, bowing slightly, Alfried Krupp* received a workers' delegate who stiffly presented him with a large steel candelabrum made in the Krupp factories. Then he settled into a black, chauffeur-driven BMW sedan for the 15-minute ride into Essen, the center of his empire and a city built almost entirely by the Krupps. There the day's most important ceremony began. On Müchener Strasse...
...reign the number of Krupp workers rose to 43,000, the huge steel foundry at Rheinhausen was built, and all high-quality steel plates in Germany came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav and any male descendants who inherited the Krupp properties the right to use the Krupp name...
...became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under the care of the sinister Württemberg court physician. Dr. Julius von Teuffel, who fed her a hypnotic drug called sulfonal. At this point the proliferating plot begins to evoke Bertha, The Sewing Machine Girl...
...Built-in Maid Service." Next day Ike and Mamie motored across Washington to the CBS television studios, there sat down in a living room set to chat about campaign issues with seven ladies chosen by G.O.P. Assistant Chairman Bertha Adkins. The special show had been geared for women voters; nudging The Big Payoff from its daily spot, Ike and his questioners aimed at women across the nation. The questions were routine-what about the draft, the cost of living, the chance of another depression? But Ike caught the spirit of the occasion, with easy grace enjoyed a 29-minute parlor...
...elevator at the rostrum is being installed to adjust the speakers' height to the cameras (which are hard to move, what with delegates about). Instead of rows of dignitaries clogging the platform, only a few committeemen and VIPs will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large-brim hats or veils ("they might keep the televiewers from recognizing their delegates"), nothing white next to the face ("detracts from the skin tone of TV images"), no big-striped dresses or shiny jewelry...