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...More to Brookish people's point is the fact that M. le Baron Fouquier has under compilation an exhaustive Wine Gotha or Who's Who among French vintages. Next year the Academic des Oenophiles will publish this Wine Gotha with its august imprimatur. Last week their president dictated a skeleton summary of French "good years," emphasizing that they apply only to the grand vin or superior grades of wine, particularly those bottled at the chateau. Good years, with the best in italics...
Albert of Belgium was a German prince. His father was a prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. His mother was a Hohenzollern. Like George of England, Albert of Belgium had little expectation as a young man of ever succeeding to the throne. His father was white-bearded old King Leopold's younger brother. Leopold had an heir, the Comte de Hainaut. Albert himself had an older brother, Prince Baudoin. But the Comte de Hainaut died. So, very mysteriously, did Prince Baudoin, and Albert's father renounced his own right to the throne...
...Beerage. If there had been an Almanach de Gotha of beer, its publishers after a 13-year lapse might hardly know how to start again, so many have been the changes. Yet the publishers would certainly know where to begin: with B for the Busches of Budweiser, unquestionably the foremost house of the beerage, a house which one year produced 1,650,000 barrels,* an alltime record. Adolphus, the founder of the Busch line, was the hearty offshoot of a wealthy Busch family of Mainz on the Rhine. He arrived in the U. S. in 1857, aged 15, served...
...finance into the Biggest Business phalanx lined up behind Handsome Adolf by Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (TIME. Nov. 28). Also in Berlin, actively supporting the Hitler cause last week, was a close kinsman of British King-Emperor George V, none other than Duke Karl Eduard von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha who recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler was nevertheless unable last week to persuade President von Hindenburg to appoint...
...Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when, all in one day, his pet French bulldog Bouboule (last of a series) died and a maid was killed falling downstairs...