Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with returns only in the future. It is because they believe that aircraft will revolutionize transportation, and because they want Detroit to be the center of manufacture for the equipment of the air. They have recently donated an airport to the City-a model of its kind. When Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ZR3 in its trip across the Atlantic, visited Detroit, Henry Ford invited him to bring the huge ship to Detroit. "We'd have no place to tie up. We'd have to have a tower of some kind to tie up to," said...
...Viennese method of dealing with immoral publications differs somewhat from the Comstockian* method. Last week, one Otto Rostock walked into the office of Herr Hugo Bettaur, publisher of a "villainously immoral magazine." He fired directly at the publisher, who fell, wounded. Rostock announced to the police that he wished to "arouse the moral sentiment of Vienna...
...General von Seeckt, present head of the Reichswehr, because the Cheka had decided that he "must not only be wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades, Neumann said, had also discussed ways and means of killing the late Hugo Stinnes, because the Cheka had ordered his "elimination." He admitted having received personally $1,000 from the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, in addition to $25,000 for the purchase of arms; and estimated the total amount disbursed by the Embassy at $200,000. He also testified that...
...Manhattan armory two days later, Nurmi was scheduled to run in the 1? mile Special. The evening wore on; time came for the race; Nurmi did not appear. A messenger was sent to him, where he lurked in some hiding place unknown to all but his manager, Hugo Quist. Back came the messenger with the news that Nurmi would not run. At this, Manager Quist put on his coat, proceeded to a Turkish bath where Nurmi had been spending the evening, fetched him back. The flying Finn gave evidence of morose spirits. He had contracted a chest cold...
Unlike the late Herr Hugo Stinnes, who was a Rhinelander, this indus- trial potentate hails from Frankfort, home of the Rothschilds. Unlike the dead "King of Coke," the "King of the Borse" is a Jew; his great predecessor in wealth was a Lutheran. Unlike the bluff, hard, scowling Stinnes, the Jew is suave, handsome, crafty. Unlike the once omnipotent Ruhr industrialist, who inherited his father's fortune, the newcomer began with the modest sum of 15,000 marks and made his enormous fortune unaided. But the latter aims to be like Stinnes; he is copying the methods of Stinnes...