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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important Folk. Dr. Walther Simons, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court, was introduced as the guest of honor by past-President Silas Hardy Strawn after an organ rendition of "Tannenbaum" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dr. Simons compared the relation of the German and U. S. judiciaries to the executive and legislative branches of their governments. Hoped he: that the German Supreme Court would "reach the place in Germany that the Supreme Court holds in the United States...
...loan of some Zeppelin technical men. The Goodyear men incorporated Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. The Zeppelin Works got a minority block of its stock. Dr. Eckener became a director/ Most important for the U. S. company was the transfer of Dr. Karl Arnstein, Prague-born chief engineer of the German company, to Akron...
...bankers have anticipated by at least two years the commercial transoceanic operation of dirigibles. As expected (TIME, Sept. 16), Manhattan's National City Bank interests organized the International Zeppelin Transport Corp. It will operate German-built dirigibles between Europe, North America, South America. National City's Chairman. Charles Edwin Mitchell was at sea last week, returning from a conference with Dr. Eckener and President Jakob Goldschmidt of the Darmstadter and National Bank. He had Dr. Eckener's declaration that a year will be necessary to enlarge the Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen and another year to produce...
...exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German and the Hollander will discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles...
...Elizabeth, Countess Russell and von Arnim, authoress of Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April, known to the public as "Elizabeth...