Word: doktor
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...Maass and Edgar S. Bamberger, retired vice president of the famed Newark department store. With them they had a customs inspector, to get the Einsteins quietly off the ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case, his wife resolutely crying: "No! No! No! No interviews!" At length the Einsteins climbed into the tug, chuffed off to the Battery where an automobile waited to take them to Princeton. Meanwhile, on the Westernland's pier, orchid-raising...
Almost alone in preferring gold to paper as pocket currency for everyday use are Dutchmen. They like to jingle heavy guilders on each of which is stamped the motto & promise of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House: "I will maintain!" In The Hague last week pompous Mynheer Doktor Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank, mentioned an obvious fact: no "run" to exchange Dutch paper money for gold can possibly perturb the Netherlands Bank. Reason: the entire paper currency of the Netherlands is backed by a gold cover...
German parents, shopping last week for Christmas presents calculated to improve their young, snapped up quantities of a new "talkie book" by Herr Doktor Ludwig Heck Director of Berlin's famed...
Shrewd, the Herr Doktor has written not about zoos but about East Africa (the once German colony which the Fatherland hopes to regain), has sandwiched into his Christmas book phonograph records full of the beat of East African drums, the jabber of natives, the roars, yelps and grunts of East African beasts...
Idea for the contest and money for the prizes came from wealthy, white-mustached Herr Geheimrat Doktor Philipp Rosenthal, president and founder of Rosenthal China Corp. Largest of German potters, his various factories make every thing from fine porcelain dinner services to lighting fixtures, kitchen appliances, high tension insulators. German business men know that he is directly responsible for the revival in 1921 of the Leipsig Fair, great European trade exposition, which seemed doomed in the days of Germany's post-War depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain...