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Left. By George Ehret, German-born brewer, founder of Manhattan's old Hell Gate Brewery, maker of once famed Franziskaner: $39,801,569; $105,000 to charity, $50,000 to a sister-in-law, the rest to six children and a grandson. He died almost seven years ago, aged 92 (TIME...
...August himself is still the sidewhiskered patriarch of U. S. beer, hurling to the last his verbal thunderbolts at Prohibition. While Missouri had the greatest brewery of the U. S., New York produced more than twice as much beer as any other state. The Hell Gate Brewery of George Ehret was going strong before Busch rose, the greatest brewery in America. Ehret was very scientific. His Franziskaner was famous. In 1912 he was offered $40,000,000 for his business, but he could not see bottled beer-would not produce it-and he fell behind Busch. Then came...
...York, a stalwart of Tammany (eight years in Congress), was made Colonel by New York's Governor. Father & son worked hand in hand. They had a house on Fifth Avenue. In 1913 they built themselves a brand-new 2,000,000-bbl. brewery; they grew to rival Ehret's. Both were good joiners and their popularity made sales. The elder Jake never lived to see Prohibition. He died in 1916. Colonel Jake just before his father's death acquired the New York Yankees which continued to bring in the money after beer ceased flowing. He is still...
...tycoon and owner of the New York "Yankees," estimated that all in all the brewing industry would spend some $200,000,000 in rehabilitation, if & when. His own company's requirements, he said, would be $5,000,000. Ready to board the beer wagon last week was Louis J. Ehret, son af the late Brewer George Ehret. He incorporated a new George Ehret Brewing Co., to be all ready...
Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass...