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...over-the-counter distribution. Their annual volume is nearly $25,000,000. The business was founded by Statthalter Rudolph Stehli in Obfelden, Switzerland, in 1837, has remained in the family ever since. The company now has 3, 500 looms scattered through Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the U. S. Emil J. Stehli, grandson of the founding Statt halter and president of Stehli Silks Corp., came to the U. S. in 1897 to establish an importing house as an adjunct to Zurich's Stehli & Co. Importing of Stehli silks proved profitable until the Dingley tariff ended it forever...
Gumbel. The Nazis had one victory for the week. After weeks of angry protest, Fascist students at Heidelberg succeeded in having tall, stoop-shouldered Professor Emil J. Gumbel dropped from the faculty. His crime according to the Nazis was that he had announced in a lecture: "A turnip is better than a war memorial, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies.'' Professor Gumbel heard the news at Cornell last week where he was attending the International Congress of Genetics (see p. 21). He was not surprised...
...Emil Gumbel's real dynamite was in three books that he published between 1919 and 1922, Four years of War Lies, Two Years of Political Murders, Four Years of Political Murders. In these the Professor listed proof of over 400 political assassinations. In 1924 the Minister of Justice admitted the truth of most of them but they did not endear him to the Nazis...
Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg. The reported reason: he had offended Heidelberg's patriotic sentiment by declaring that "a turnip is better than a war monument, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies." Professor Gumbel denied saying this...
...Minister, and Minister of Corporations Giuseppe Bottai were removed from office. Il Duce himself took over both their portfolios, the first of which he has held before. The move was particularly surprising to U. S. readers. Only two days prior they had read in the New York Times Biographer Emil Ludwig's interview with Mussolini in which Il Duce had said...