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Died. Hedwig Crusemann Heyl, 84, ''Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...
...wife nor Reader Leigh. On request of the White House (see p. 4) the "voice" of President Roosevelt will no longer be heard on "The March of TIME" or any other broadcast. The "voice," that of William Perry ("Bill") Adams will continue to speak for Senator Borah, President von Hindenburg, many another bigwig, many a lowly character in the news. "Bill" Adams, onetime professional baseballer, onetime stage actor and dramatic coach at Yale, turned to radio in 1925. For four years he was "Uncle Henry" on the old Collier's series...
...inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed, on the day after the fire, by President von Hindenburg at the frantic insistence of Herren Hitler, Goring and Goebbels. Would not Old Paul commute the sentence of Dutchman van der Lubbe to imprisonment? All Holland was hopeful when the Nazi-controlled Press threw out strong, repeated hints that President von Hindenburg would accede to Queen Wilhelmina's request. Overnight...
...Premier of Prussia is simply to abolish Prussia as a State. Last week General Göring, fighting for his Premier-hood, was able to force into one and only one Berlin newspaper a short account of a call he had just made on President von Hindenburg...
...General Göring," reported Der Tag, "President von Hindenburg stressed the historical importance of Prussia. The aged President will not permit his beloved Prussia, which for nearly half a century was the backbone of the German Empire, to be carved up into districts without a fight...