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Minister of Interior-Dr. Wilhelm Frick (Reichstag Leader of the Hitler Party...
Another U. S. steel constituent was Union Steel-bought for $25,000,000 from the Mellons, the late Henry Clay Frick and Mr. Donner. Mr. Donner was Union Steel's president. Donora, Pa., which he helped found, is named after him. He also helped found Monessen...
...other man who helped to squeeze him was his own lieutenant, fiery Wilhelm Frick, chairman of the National Socialist Party in the Reichstag. Without waiting for his leader to make an announcement, Nazi Frick blurted out to a mass meeting at Kempten, Bavaria, the flat declaration that Bruning must quit, that the Nazis would take no part in the movement to re-elect Old Paul by popular vote. The meaning was clear: If Old Paul wanted Nazi support he must get rid of Bruning, a thing Old Paul would hardly do. Handsome Adolf's mustache wiggled convulsively. Here was possible...
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...
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...