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When Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie's longtime steelmaking partner, died in 1919, he left his great art collection, his impressive Manhattan home and one of the few private lawns on Fifth Avenue to his widow for her lifetime, with the provision that thereafter it should become a public museum. The Widow Frick has been dead since 1931 and the Frick Museum is not yet ready for the public...
This week a new seven-story building was opened immediately behind the Frick Museum, with which it will eventually be integrated. No part of Henry Frick's original bequest, the Frick Library was the idea and gift of his daughter Helen. Stocked with some 45,000 books, pamphlets, catalogs and over 200,000 photo graphs, it was instantly recognized as one of the most important art libraries in the world...
Meeting in Manhattan last week, the National League's club-owners remorsefully accepted his resignation, created for him the position of chairman of the board. Chosen as his successor was brisk young Ford Christopher Frick, who last February resigned as sportswriter on the New York Evening Journal to be the National League's director of publicity...
...wallet of every cautious German bulged week ago with an automobile license, a police registration card, a Nazi party card and, for good measure, a passport. Last week Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick stuffed in one more. Hereafter each German must also carry a racial card (sippenblatt: sippe, kin; and blatt, card). After an official investigation of his ancestry, a pure "Aryan" German will be certified as such, an impure one clearly labeled...
This was followed by a skillful printed press handout from the Chancellery in which Herr Hitler, purporting to make public a letter from himself to Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, sought to disarm criticism of his coup by a blend of adulation for the dead, professed self-modesty and popular appeal. Full text...