Word: hjalmar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the great German Reichsbank there presides Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, a world-prominent and exceedingly dignified fiscal expert, who is sometimes referred to as "a Power...
Last week an enterprising German publisher advertised that he would shortly distribute a bit of popular sheet music entitled "The Minstrel's Waltz by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht." At Berlin, the sensation equaled that which might be produced in Manhattan by announcing that Mr. John P. Morgan had just composed the words for a new jazz moaner's "blues." The denouement...
Quoth indulgent Swedes, tabloidizing Mr. Nobel for U. S. consumption: "He came of a family of inventors and princes of finance. His father, Immanuel Nobel, invented the submarine mine. His brothers, Robert Hjalmar Nobel and Ludvig Immanuel Nobel, founded the naphtha industry at Baku, Russia, one of the most phenomenally successful enterprises of the 19th Century. He himself invented dynamite, and reaped fabulous tribute from the whole world for the secret. The entire family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade...
Amundsen's five companions in daring-Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Leif Dietrichsen and Mechanics Omdahl and Feucht-were also aboard the collier, together with members of the Norwegian Aero Club's relief expedition. When the ship reached the Skagerrak narrows north of Denmark, the party was to be met by seaplanes which would convoy them to Horten and thence to the "honor pier," royalty's landing place...
...elder brother (TIME, June 8) because dual control of the huge concern was a flat failure-will centralize the interests as far as possible and sell a number of holdings which were considered as temporary investments. It was also pointed out that the mere fact that Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht and a number of other prominent bankers had met to lend Stinnes money was a good enough sign that the firm was solvent. There was no thought of liquidation, according to Stinnes reports...