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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Informed that Motor Magnate Henry Ford had accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the anti-Semitic German Government on the occasion of his 75th birthday fortnight ago, The Lion roared: "Mr. Henry Ford, in my opinion, is a damned fool for permitting the world's greatest gangster to give him this citation...
...price of radios is everywhere so high that people continue to use antique models. "We now have 9,500,000 radio sets*-which is 5,500,000 more than before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor," declared Dr. Goebbels. "Now, with the new People's Radio, we shall become the greatest radio country in the world!" Technicians who have inspected the People's Radio say it has been designed to give poor reception of distant i.e., foreign stations, is primarily intended to confine listening as much as possible to German stations...
...designers have been well publicized, and a notion has got abroad that Paris is losing initiative in setting fashions. Downright U. S. citizens who rather hoped so were thoroughly disabused last week when U. S. buyers and wholesalers flocked into Paris like homing birds for Fashion's greatest circus : the annual autumn openings of the great couturiers...
Somewhat battered by financial adversity, the far-flung empire of William Randolph Hearst remains the greatest conglomeration of publishing enterprises in the U. S. Hearst's 21 daily and 16 Sunday newspapers may not be able to start a war or elect a President, as they used to, but their circulation of 4,453,579 daily and 6,856,793 Sunday still stands supreme.* The highest law in this empire has always been what followed the electrifying phrase: "The Chief says-." Today, the potency of this phrase is a subject of much discussion in the newspaper world. "The Chief...
Alfred Krupp was the particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia...