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...Frau Gertrude Frehse, potent textile industrialist, member of the House of Burgesses of the State and Free City of Hamburg. She said in a burring, rather pleasant voice: "I entered an apron factory, which I have now owned for 18 years, as an ordinary worker. Why should I tell you how long ago that was? . . . Today my husband has his business, too, but we keep all that separate from one another. I expect my two daughters to join me in my business when their education is complete; and my only son intends to enter his father's business. . . . [Smiling...
...Frau Mathilde von Ludendorff, wife of the once potent quartermaster general of the imperial German army: "Having been mentioned in my present husband's divorce suit last summer, having written a book about women, having delved into numerology,* I last week addressed a packed auditorium in Berlin on the subject: 'The real truth about the World War.' Said I: 'We learned that a mystic number was responsible. 1914's digits add up to 15. Fifteen means Jehovah, ergo the War was a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews organized the Sarajevo murder. Fortunately, the good old Aryan...
...Died. Frau Hildegard Carson, 50, designated by the usually conservative New York Times "Germany's richest woman"; in Bayreuth, Germany; from apoplexy. Her $10,000,000 estate of shipbuilding yards and docks in East Prussia goes to her Swedish husband. (Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen is probably worth...
Last week the High Court at Weimar found Herr Graefe guilty of malicious slander, sentenced him to three months in jail. Indignant friends of Dr. Stresemann explained once again that his wife has a rich bachelor brother who delights to open his purse and let Frau Stresemann entertain herself, her friends, Dr. Stresemann's friends, at lavish semi-official functions quite beyond the Stresemann means...
Once a distracted Frankfort woman came moaning to the aged Frau Rothschild, sobbed: "They say that war is breaking out. They will take my only son." A smile compassionate yet proud twitched the lips of Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose...