Word: coke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jeremiah Jenks, political economy expert of New York University, recently returned to Germany, reported that Hugo Stinnes, Master of Coke, "is employing two secretaries with a staff of assistants solely to look after his widespread relief work. Stinnes provides the entire upkeep of the municipal kitchens, foundlings' home and a home for nursing mothers in Mühlheim, adjoining his own house, and contributes to a long list of hospitals, institutions, students' and middle-class canteens and scientific research institutions throughout Germany. Large numbers of shamefaced poor, including needy artists, writers and 'disabled officers, owe their existence...
This state of affairs attracted the acrimonious pen of George Bernhard, Socialist editor of the Vossische Zeltung of Berlin, who has on occasion found words of censure to heap on the head of the great and notorious "Coke-monger," Herr Hugo Stinnes. Said Herr Bernhard: "The mass of German people do not seem quite aware of what causes foreigners annoyance at this vulgar display. It is not the fact that there is still wealth in Germany. There are rich and poor everywhere, and no sensible person will blame a man simply because he is rich if he does his duty...
...Ludwig Stein, for 20 years foreign editor of the Vossische Zeitung, a professor of the University of Berne in Switzerland, made some interesting comments upon "the master of coke" in an address last week in Manhattan. Said he: "Give me two hours with my old friend, Hugo Stinnes and we will make peace better than you statesmen can make in two years. . . Stinnes is the mightiest personage in the German Empire. The Rockefeller of Germany has accepted no other title than that he gave himself-'the ironmaster.' . . . Stinnes never was an admirer of the Kaiser...
...shipbuilding, tin plate orders are good, and the Japanese government has bought large amounts of steel for rebuilding its devastated areas. This, coupled with the unabated movement for domestic construction, has been especially cheering to the steel trade. Thus far, the raw material lines of the industry, especially in coke, have been the only ones to experience real depression...
Meanwhile the French conversed with Herr Hugo Stinnes (" Master of Coke") and other industrialists concerning resumption of deliveries from the Ruhr. These discussions had the effect of recognizing Herr Stinnes as " Master of Germany " to the complete exclusion of the German Government. No agreement of note was reached with the German industrialists and the discussions were broken off. An agreement was reached, however, with the German Miners' Union and the men were reported returning to work. France declared that all evidences of military occupation would be removed as soon as normal economic conditions obtained in the Ruhr valley...