Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr., son of the late Hugo Stinnes, posted bail of that amount for release from a Berlin prison...
...scare heads said STINNES IN JAIL. That was only literally true. In a clean Berlin cell sat only Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr.−not his late father STINNES, the titan who turned his coal and iron into fleets of ships, miles of factories, myriads of newspaper presses−all, all HIS (TIME, April 21, 1924). In those mighty days STINNES was the Despot of German industry and the Bogey Man of Europe...
...Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr. is charged with supplying sharpsters with funds whereby a bond swindle involving several million marks was attempted. Clumsy, they falsified twice as many bonds of a certain series as were ever issued. Some people can see through a racket as clever as that. In cell sat Stinnes. He had been obliged to resign as president of 17 Stinnes companies in which U. S. investors have a stake...
...Hugo Stinnes, son of the late Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, was arrested and jailed last week in Berlin, charged with attempting to defraud the German Government. His secretary, also arrested but later released, accused him of wanting to sell falsely registered war bonds...
...wide interest in visual broadcasting has already warranted the publishing of a special magazine, Television, by Hugo Gernsback, famed producer of "bug" magazines...