Word: essene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ponts and other moneyed aristocrats of Wilmington, Del., were honored not long ago to entertain young Baron George Exter Friedrich von Krupp, heir apparent to the vast Krupp works at Essen. The Baron was no mustachioed warlord but, on the contrary, save for his short-clipped blond hair and "der's" for "the's," differed little in mien from a U. S. college undergraduate. He conversed readily, fluently; talked of sport, history, politics; reminisced modestly of his grandfather; spoke of his mother, famed and able Bertha Krupp, with restrained admiration and affection. Then he would sigh...
Once upon a time (1810) one Friedrich Krupp purchased a forge in Essen; hammered hard and long in making a new product, "cast steel"; died. His good works were carried on by his widow and 14-year-old son Alfred, but little success was achieved until 1847, when the Krupp works exhibited a 3-pound muzzle-loading cannon of cast steel which attracted wide attention. German militarists, pleased, gave orders. The Krupps built model villages- "colonies," with schools, libraries, recreation grounds, clubs, stores. When Alfred Krupp died at Essen in 1887 he was called the "Cannon King...
...succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during the War Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen was undoubtedly the most potent female defender of the Fatherland...
Died. Dr. Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt, 55, former German Ambassador to the U. S. (who failed to lower his embassy flag at the death of Presi dent Wilson), director-general of the Krupp Works; at Essen...
...Poland. The "passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time in 1923 was another, and every pinprick, big or small, has reduced still more the strength of the parties of the Left in Germany. Without the help of France, there would probably still be Socialists in the German cabinet and General von Hindenburg would most likely...