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Same night Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick announced at Nurnberg to 75,000 assembled Nazis that the Realm-government is about ready to smash opposition in the German Protestant Church to Adolf Hitler's hand-picked Realm-bishop Ludwig Müller, promoted at a single bound from the rank of a common Army chaplain (TIME, July 10, 1933). "This is my last warning to Protestant Opposition pastors!" cried Dr. Frick, and closed with a eulogy of No. 1 Brownshirt Jewbaiter Julius Streicher (see below): "Our two glorious years of intensive anti-Jewish policy would have been impossible...
Died, Henry Clay McEldowney, 66, president of Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co. (Mellon bank), friend and associate of Andrew William Mellon and the late Henry Clay Frick; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City, N. J. His 1932-33 salary of $165,000 was the highest paid any U. S. banker (TIME, March...
...Justice. Last week they prepared to follow every detail of the Roiderer case, which had become rather public because the U. S. Embassy insisted upon knowing something about what was happening to the accused U. S. citizen. As a special favor German Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick authorized U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist to be present at the trial in Berlin...
...Bridge admitted on the stand last week that he had received since that time more than $50,000 from Miss Frick, but maintained that this money was due him for a block of Cerro de Pasco copper stock held in his name by the elder Frick. Never once did Defendant Frick appear in court. Newshawks were not surprised, for no rich woman has ever fought publicity so long or so successfully. Blonde, thin, freckled and 44, Helen Clay Frick inherited her father's executive ability...
...house near his summer place at Prides Crossing, Mass., as a vacation home for Boston factory girls, among whom Daughter Helen organized clubs known as The True Blue Girls. During and after the War she took boatloads of supplies and clothing to France. Lately she has made the Frick Art Library and the Frick Museum her career. Because she felt that the elderly Bridge, whom she described as "somebody hired to show people through the galleries," was not qualified to be curator of the Frick collection as a public museum, she fired him, felt that she had done her duty...