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...lines had been hard hit, but Frau Wilhelmine Bracht could not think when business had been better. On Berlin's fashionable Kurfürstendamm, outside "Der Ring," the marriage bureau she had run these 14 years, Berliners crowded around such arresting announcements...
...Frau Bracht knew that "Turk, 47" would draw many eager applications from German women. There were calls for German men, too. "Brazilian girl, 27" and "Hungarian girl, 23, relatives in South America" were looking for husbands last week. The price: 500 marks down and 500 upon marriage. For an extra 100 marks, applicants could attend the "social evenings" to dance, sip red wine, cocktails and gaze at prospective partners...
Minister of Interior and Acting Federal Commissioner for Prussia†-Dr. Franz Bracht...
Just whom the police were to shoot & kill was not stated by blunt, beefy Dr. Franz Bracht, the grim Federal Commissioner for the State of Prussia who gave the orders. Just about the time Dr. Bracht boomed "Shoot to kill!" the Berlin Traffic Co. notified 1,000 of its 22,000 striking employes that they are definitely fired and will never get their jobs back. The 1,000 firings made it needless to fire shots. Cowed strikers came back to work. Since Berlin was carried by Communists in the national elections (TIME, Nov. 14) Dr. Bracht, onetime Mayor of Essen...
German cartoons covering Dr. Bracht's efforts to force Prussian ladies to "decently cover" their backs reached the U. S. last week. "It is hereby decided." decreed Dr. Bracht, "that the dorsal opening in feminine costumes shall not be cut so low as to be excessive." At first Dr. Bracht was understood to mean that evening gowns could be cut only a trifle less than shoulder high. In desperation Berlin and other Prussian shopkeepers waited upon the style dictator, told him that almost their whole stock of women's evening gowns would be rendered worthless by his decree. These gowns...