Word: geheimrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Castor tells me that the appearance of Hoover Geheimrat on a Boston silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy...
Idea for the contest and money for the prizes came from wealthy, white-mustached Herr Geheimrat Doktor Philipp Rosenthal, president and founder of Rosenthal China Corp. Largest of German potters, his various factories make every thing from fine porcelain dinner services to lighting fixtures, kitchen appliances, high tension insulators. German business men know that he is directly responsible for the revival in 1921 of the Leipsig Fair, great European trade exposition, which seemed doomed in the days of Germany's post-War depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain...