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...Frankfort, ancestral home of Rothschilds and Schiffs, Hitlerite Police Chief von Westrem announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prayers & Atrocities | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...From Frankfort, Germany, arrived Engineer Albert Fischer to show U. S. brewers how to put vitamins in their beer. Said he: "Ordinary beer has practically no vitamins and little food value. Ja -you can get fat on dark Munich beer because of its sugar. After three steins of regular beer, you feel bloated. Under our new process which half the breweries of Germany have adopted, you can drink five steins at one sitting and not feel bloated. Take a little rest, drink five more, still you do not feel bloated!" ¶At Albany Emanuel Koveleski, president of the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: April Beer | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

John Jacob Raskob proposed ways to bring back prosperity: i) Repeal the 18th Amendment: 2) tax beer; 3) apply a 1½% general Sales Tax; 4) balance the Budget. Through Indiana Josephus Daniels cheered for his onetime subordinate in the Navy Department, at Frankfort, Elkhart, Wabash. Muncie. Philadelphians were begged by Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley to contrast the records of Hoover and Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finale | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Though Kentuckians like to bet on horses from his big Idle Hour Farm which spreads out on both sides of the Frankfort Pike near Lexington, Col. Bradley is no native Kentuckian. He was born in Bradford, Pa., and worked in its steel mills till he was old enough to go out West and become a cowpuncher. After a few years of that he went to Chicago and made money with a hotel. Presently he was rich enough to spend his winters in Palm Beach, where he started a gambling casino. How much "Bradley's," smartest gaming place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Churchill Downs | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born at Frankfort-On-Main in 1749, the son of a rich lawyer and the grandson of a tailor turned innkeeper. Educated in the arts, sciences and law, Goethe's poetical and practical career took imposing form in 1775, when, aged 26, he settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Man | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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