Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a total that the worshipful minds of art students could not embrace. Nearly every picture was priceless, not for sale, beyond reach of the millions of a Mellon, Frick, Morgan or Widener. At the opening notables made conventional little speeches of Franco-Italian handholding. Their banalities could not obscure the splendor and magnitude of the event. Last week a tourist in Paris could see in a day in the Petit Palais what in any other year would have taken a summer's zigzagging over the face of Europe...
...National League, under its new president, Ford Frick. last December decided to try an experiment it had been anxiously considering for three years. This summer, in Cincinnati and possibly Chicago and St. Louis, major-league teams will play night games by floodlight for the first time. Harried by financial difficulties, the Boston Braves threatened to turn their park into a dog racetrack. The plan was abandoned. Instead President Emil Fuchs persuaded the New York Yankees to give him Babe Ruth...
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...