Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 22 early birds: Benjamin ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, demon speculator in oil, gold, airplanes; rich Long Island widow Clara Adams, inveterate first tripper who is trying to round the world in 16 days (for passage on the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 she paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship...
...post-War world now began to seem not only warless, but prospering. The years of German loans, of the building of the Bremen, the Graf Zeppelin, of reconstruction, of speculation, of U. S. financial dominance unaccompanied by an increase of U. S. political responsibility, were also years that saw the production of the world's goods reach new heights. They were the years when Coolidge said of war debts, "They hired the money," when Charles Dawes was Coolidge's vicegerent in Europe, wearing laurels won with the Dawes Plan...
...Baltimore last week the Aryan Author Herr Oskar Maria Graf worked up the local Deutschamerikanischer Kulturverband by telling its members: "Throughout Germany small groups of citizens opposed to the rule of Adolf Hitler have been formed and are awaiting an opportunity to rise against the Nazi Government." Aroused by this Aryan straight from Europe, the excited Baltimore Kulturverband telegraphed to President Roosevelt a scarcely veiled hint that he might emulate President Wilson, whose XIV Points gave the German masses a rallying ground against Kaiser Wilhelm...
...others were lost in the World War-the rest, except for the Graf Zeppelin and the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst. were dismantled or forfeited to the Allies...
...losers. The line-ups: KIRKLAND ADAMS Wood l.e. l.e. Alkerson Barnard l.t. l.t. Kingman Arnold l.g. l.g. Van Evera Keane c. c. Brown Gray r.g. r.g. Maisel Howitt r.t. r.t. Dorfman Snyder r.e. r.e. Perry Wills q.b. q.b. Counihan O'Kelley l.h.b. l.h.b. Hauck McClure r.h.b. r.h.b. Graf Mayne f.b. f.b. Williston Subs: Wentworth Shepard Cogswell Lucey Erlanger Whitman Jones Coleman Soden LOWELL DUDLEY Rogers l.e. l.e. Stern Litt l.t. l.t. Massick Hunter l.g. l.g. Horscowitz Reppun c. c. Bergman Cotton r.g. r.g. Levine Call r.t. r.t. Fisher Kornan r.e. r.e. Shack Murphy q.b. q.b. Black Piper f.b. f.b. Minscher...