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Died. Dr. Johann Schober, 57. twice Chancellor of Austria (1921-22, 1929-30); of heart disease; in Gutenbrunn, Austria. Beginning as a clerk in the police department Dr. Schober rose to the high office of head of the Austrian Federal police which position he retained until his death. For some years during the reign of Emperor Franz Josef he safe-guarded the security of visiting monarchs, met Edward VII of Great Britain from whom he learned English. Regarded as conservative, Schober was trusted and liked by the anti-Marxists, the nervous bourgeoisie and the Jews, especially during the years immediately...
...Showman Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, in Los Angeles whither he had been taken from a New Mexico sanatorium with pleurisy of both lungs; Adolph S. Ochs, 74, publisher of the New York Times, in Manhattan, following removal of a kidney; Dr. Johann Schober, 57, onetime chancellor of Austria, in Vienna, of a critical heart attack; Mayor Anton J. Cermak, 59, of Chicago, reputedly from convention fatigue and overeating (pickled pigs' feet...
...permanent injunction against it. His firm even hinted that the factory would be moved unless its laborers behaved. Weaver Forstmann is proud of the fact that his forefathers signed the roster of the Weavers Guild of Flanders and later moved to Werden, Germany, where his great-great-grandfather and Johann Friederich Huffmann bought the Abbey of St. Ludger the Great because it had a fine carp pond which furnished water for the making of woolens...
...flags flapped last week on short staffs sprouting from the mudguards of statesmen's limousines. The nations of the world were doing homage in this small Thuringian city. Here in 1919 the Constitution of the present German Republic was adopted. And in Weimar 100 years ago last week died Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Not only a poet, this lusty, lyric German philosopher was also a resourceful statesman, ever at the elbow of Weimar's reigning Grand Duke...
...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born at Frankfort-On-Main in 1749, the son of a rich lawyer and the grandson of a tailor turned innkeeper. Educated in the arts, sciences and law, Goethe's poetical and practical career took imposing form in 1775, when, aged 26, he settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which...