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...apart from all this hubbub was Mr. Kruesi. The tall, dark, youngish-looking man who invented the device which bears his name was toiling obscurely as a civilian radio engineer employed by the Army at Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) at a salary of some $3,400 a year. Geoffrey Gottlieb Kruesi, having revolutionized long-distance flying, is at 38 neither rich nor famed. Born in Switzerland (his father was a butcher), he studied engineering at Zurich Polytechnic Institute, arrived in the U. S. 15 years ago. In California he worked under Dr. Frederick August Kolster, famed "father of the radio...
...manufacturers like Rabkin, and Chicago's D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally Manufacturing Co., Genco, Inc., and Rockola Manufacturing Co., are never at a loss for new ideas. Last week Mr. Rabkin's staff of artists and engineers were busy on a pin game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they...
...statement appeared next day on the front page of the New York Times, followed by dispatches describing 'reactions to it in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Maplewood, N. J., where a Catholic priest blamed shorts on the cinema. The New York Daily News quickly photographed a Miss Bea Gottlieb who last year won a round of golf from Edward of Wales, interviewed her on the terrace of the Westchester Embassy Club which is run by two onetime speak-easy proprietors. Said Bea Gottlieb, who sells securities and real estate when not golfing: "Shorts are the only sensible thing," added...
When Manhattan's eccentric spinster Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died in 1931, she left to five charitable institutions the bulk of the $36,000,000 fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and grounded in Manhattan. To small Drew University of Madison, N. J. fell the lamed Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term...
...York contingent of the Stahl-helm (200) smuggled uniforms off German boats, owned six German military rifles, held drills, occasionally used guns borrowed from the National Guard, which many of them were encouraged to join by a Sergeant Gottlieb Haas. C. From Detroit, Henry Ford, who once singed his fingers in an anti-Semitism campaign, wired the committee that German reprints of his Dearborn Independent articles were being used against his orders...