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...this proved the exceeding wisdom of Germany's great iron & steel mongering House of Krupp, now headed by Bertha Krupp's husband, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. In his own vast organization Dr. Krupp von Bohlen is a high-collared martinet, but in dealing with raw statesmen of the new regime he has proved an ingratiating fellow. Less than three months ago he, as president of the Federation of German Industries, beat a strategic retreat by putting it under Nazi auspices. Last week he fairly bubbled optimism as members of the Federation received official notice canceling...
Potter Palmer built his mansion for Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, a Kentucky belle, out of a fortune he had made in the dry-goods business and plowed back into a mile of State Street real estate. In its day it cost more than $1,000,000 and was generally considered a thing of rare architectural beauty (see cut). Inside it was a magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with...
...moment the house was finished it became the social capital of Chicago. About it and Bertha Honore Palmer, firmly enthroned in her own Italian hall, sprang up a vast folklore. One famed Chicago social organization once had the temerity to entertain simultaneously with Mrs. Palmer but only a society editor appeared. Bertha Palmer maintained winter palaces in London and Paris but they served chiefly as hunting preserves where she caught European royalty and nobility for her Chicago castle. Chicago was good to Mrs. Palmer. It was always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred...
...many French musicians took Germans for their patterns. As a last pro- test he gave himself the title of Musicien Français. But France paid him no honors the day he rode to his grave. His only funeral march was played by Germany's Big Bertha...
...Government and cut out wasteful competition among its members. By his shrewdness in backing Handsome Adolf against the field several years ago Krupp von Bohlen last week restored his firm to the dominant political position in German industry that it occupied under the Empire with his wife, the great Bertha. The banks were next. Dr. Georg Solmssen last week resigned as president of the Central Association of German Banks and Bankers; Dr. Otto Christian Fischer succeeded him. Werner Dietz was appointed to membership as Nazi "liaison official." He talked turkey to his fellow members at his first board meeting...