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...matters turned out, it was not all that simple. Under sharper questioning, he testified that the family's distillery interests had been sold to the Schenley Corp., in which he and a brother held $250,000 worth of stock. A rum-distilling competitor, A. M. Brauer, took the stand to testify that Paiewonsky had once imported Cuban rum and transshipped it to the U.S. mainland falsely labeled as Virgin Islands rum, thereby dodging $1,000,000 in taxes. "He's totally unfit for any position of public trust," concluded Brauer. Answered Paiewonsky: he had indeed bought...
Back in office as lord mayor, beefy Max Brauer, 70, was quick to point out that the Hamburg Socialists had succeeded where the national party had failed, because of his moderate, down-to-earth and pro-Western brand of Socialism. "The Social Democrats in Hamburg," he said, "have shed the outworn dogma about being a party solely of workers ... The most important task we have is to set the example for a great people's party drawn from all classes . . . and to shape these new times...
...Brauer is only one of several Socialist leaders who are challenging the Ollenhauer bureaucracy, which had insisted on socializing industry, fighting conscription and cultivating neutrality. Most prominent at the moment is broad-beamed Carlo Schmid, 60, a respected intellectual and foreign-policy specialist who backed German rearmament when other parliamentary Socialists fought the whole idea, and last fortnight topped Ollenhauer in the voting for the Socialist parliamentary group's executive council...
Crew-cut Jerry Brauer, 34, officially became the youngest head of a U.S. theological faculty last week. It was fitting that it should be at the University of Chicago, where young leadership is a tradition (William Rainey Harper was 35 when he became first president of the new university, ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins took over at 30). As he moved in as the new boss of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty, Midwesterner Brauer (from Fond du Lac, Wis.) immediately announced completion of a detailed 16-point program to revolutionize the seminary...
...inaugural address, Lutheran Brauer, who studied at Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis and taught four years at Federated, found nothing to cheer about in the spiritual status quo. "The theological profession is becoming so respectable that it is rapidly becoming uncomfortable," he said. As for U.S. theological schools, said the young dean before his address, "too many men are still teaching the same confounded things . . . We're out to break the pattern...