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...prospect for Edmund, son of Hugo, was not bright. First after his father's death he quarreled with his brother Hugo Hermann. As his share of his father's estate, he was given a controlling interest of the Nordstern Insurance Co. and of the Aga Automobile works. Recently he sold the former. Last week he got into serious difficulties with the latter. Short of cash, he could not pay his men's wages. He accused the banking interests of boycotting him. He offered $500,000 worth of stock to his employes, bargained with U.S. financiers for the sale...
...effect of this on the Stinnes fortune was exemplified last week. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung was sold by the bank syndicate to whom the Stinnes family (headed by the younger son, Hugo Hermann) had given full power of attorney. The sales price was only 3,000,000 marks?about one third of the material valuation of the property, exclusive of good will. Incidentally it was rumored that the purchasers of the paper, Walter Salinger and Dr. August Weber, had secured it for the Government which intended to utilize it as an administration organ...
...John Davison Rockefeller of Germany, died, last year (TIME, Apr. 21, 1924), his vast interests were left to his Witwe (widow), Frau Klaire Wagenknecht Stinnes, and direction of the estate was divided between Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, the eldest of Herr Stinnes' five children, and "Junior" (Hugo Hermann) Stinnes, the second...
...Situation. When Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis strode into journalism, in 1913, bought the staid, sanctimonious Philadelphia Public Ledger, the eyes that swiveled in his direction widened and awaited a new stroke of genius from the employer of Editors Bok* (Ladies' Home Journal) and Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post...
Lofty tone the Ledger already had, but did not cling to. Sound information the Curtis coffers tried to purchase by establishing a wide foreign service and high-priced U.S. correspondents. Independent politics were a little difficult to maintain, because Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis lunched at the Union League Club and had a reputation for highly respectable conservatism...