Word: harden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MEET MY CONTEMPORARIES- Maximilian Harden-Holt...
...most extraordinary comment on the situation came from Maximilian Harden, ardent Republican and fervent hater of the ex-Kaiser. Said he: "The writer is not Monarchist; but as a believer in democracy he must say that it is poor sportsmanship for a supposedly democratic nation to attempt to suppress the successful Party, however distasteful it may be. The Nationalists triumphed in May and again this month, despite all the organized powers of officials; and they are entitled to their share in the responsibilities of the new Government...
...democracy?-just look at the cables from over the whole world. Dictatorship of some sort or other is the favorite idea. The only good the War did is to show that a nation, not well armed, is powerless, and that such a nation gets no help from anybody." Maximilian Harden, German editor, intractable enemy of the Hohen- zollerns: "The certainty that war has lost its last glowing charm of romantic chivalry or knighthood, that it has lost the manly nobility of a fight to be decided by personal valor, and has become an endless war of industrial masses of matter...
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 56, famed five and ten cent store operator, to Mabel Doris Mercer, daughter of George A. Mercer (onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie) and divorced wife of Percival Harden, publisher of The Club Fellow (a weekly similar to Town Topics?only more blatant); in Manhattan. He was divorced (TIME, March 3) by Anna Harvey Kresge, who charged lack of affection, sulking...
Animadverting upon the Stinnes ch?iacter, Harden writes: "Does broad, wild, smiling Nature delight him? I am not sure. I rather believe that if a magician had whisked him to a high Himalayan plateau he would instantly have begun studying its geological and economic possi- bilities...