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...Berlin last week, after the Population Congress had been opened by bristling Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Dr. Campbell declared: "The Leader of the German Nation, Adolf Hitler, ably supported by Dr. Frick and guided by Germany's anthropologists and social philosophers, has been able to construct a comprehensive racial policy of population development and improvement. This policy promises to be epochal in racial history!" Gently chiding good folk who think of marriage as something sentimental and religious with all bodily details omitted from consideration until after the ceremony, Dr. Campbell reported: "A decided tendency...
...Henry Benson. In 1927 his entire collection was bought by Lord Duveen for $3,000,000, brought to the U. S. Lord Duveen quickly wrote off a third of his investment by selling the four Duccios for $1,000,000, two to John D. Rockefeller Jr., one to the Frick Collection, and the fourth to Mr. Mackay who sold it to Mr. Kress for exactly what he paid for it less the Duveen commission. For the same panel six centuries ago the City of Siena paid Artist Duccio two and a half gold florins (about $5.75) in addition...
...power to settle all German church issues upon Vice President of the Reichstag Hans Kerrl, a young and virile Jew-baiter? Herr Karrl's appointment came apparently from the Ministry of Interior. No confirmation could be had that the Realmleader approved this or Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick's other drastic move last week in appointing as Berlin's Chief of Police ruthless, Jew-baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve a fresh drive for "sterilization...
...impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting a man and a tree into a segment space. Other fine work: The Bronx's Columbus Monument, Albany's Mother's Monument, Richmond, Va.'s bust of Thomas Jefferson...
...been replaced by the principle 'no crime without punishment.' This should obligate German men of the law to a new gratitude to Der Führer. For the first time the concept of 'love of Der Führer' has become a legal concept." ¶ Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick received final authority to settle all German church disputes...