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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When trouble broke out in 1892 in Homestead, Pa., between Carnegie Steel Co. and its employes, Emma Goldman and Berkman felt they ought to go out there and fight. But Berkman had a better idea: he would shoot the capitalist-in-charge, Henry Clay Frick. With Emma's blessing he went to Pittsburgh, shot Mr. Frick three times, but unsuccessfully, and went to jail for 14 years. His attempt canonized Berkman in Emma's eyes, set an untarnishable halo round his head. When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Red | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Henry Clay Frick, the one-time Adelaide Howard Childs, widow of the late Pittsburgh steel tycoon; after a brief illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass. With her death, the Frick art collection, its $15,000,000 endowment and the Fifth Avenue mansion in which it is housed pass over to "the use and benefit of all persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...ended in a Socialist victory forcing out of office Dr. Wilhelm Frick, notorious for his outrageous Fascistizing of the Ministry of Interior of Thuringia. Not content with expelling Socialists from the police force and replacing them by Fascists, Dr. Frick flew to such extremes as his decree forcing Thuringian school children to pray every morning for abolition of the Young Plan and the Treaty of Versailles-two Fascist platform planks. That Dr. Frick was forced out last week marked a Hitler defeat, but a defeat which should remove from public notice a Fascist so rabid and reckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Traitor Hitler! | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Record Damages | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Shall Germany build a second "pocket battleship" like the famed Ersatz Preussen? (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) 2) Along what lines will the Government administer the new Defense-of-the-Reich Act? (TIME, March 31) 3) What is to be done about Thuringia's Minister of Interior, redoubtable Dr. Frick, who continues to defy the central German Government about reactionary military organizations and such matters? 4) Along what lines does the Foreign Office propose to work out satisfactory commercial rapprochement with Poland on the basis of the new Polish-German Treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ha, Ha! Ha, Ha! Ha, Ha!! | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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