Word: kaiser
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Nieman stuck to his guns. The Journal translated and printed more than 5,000,000 words of pro-German propaganda flooding the U.S. (including stories from German-language Milwaukee papers), to prove that some Americans were more loyal to the Kaiser than to the U.S. Government. Journal reporters smuggled themselves into pro-German meetings, wrote long eye-witness accounts. Many Milwaukeeans were so furious that Nieman posted armed guards outside the paper's doors, barred the windows and gave staffers revolvers to carry. For its campaign, the Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. The campaign also intensified...
Died. Princess Margarethe of Hesse, 81, sister of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, widow of Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers...
...year, and has already cut back production on its 1954 models. Nevertheless, Studebaker President Harold Vance, who feels that heavy dealer inventories will be worked off by the end of the first quarter, expects a sharp upturn in spring and total sales of at least 160,000 this year. Kaiser Motors is only in limited production for 1954, has made just minor changes in its three-car (Henry J, Kaiser, Aero Willys) line. Packard, which only face-lifted its 1954 cars but boosted horsepower (to 212), has a new V-8 engine in the works and a completely new body...
...Joseph Washington Frazer. who formed Kaiser-Frazer Corp. (now Kaiser Motors Corp.) with Henry J. Kaiser in 1945, then stepped out of company operations when he split with Kaiser in 1949, resigned as vice chairman and director of the company. Said he: "I tried to give advice and counsel, but Henry and I still didn't agree, so I decided to get off the board." Frazer will hold his job as chairman of Graham-Paige Corp., an investment company, and will be president and chairman of Standard Uranium Corp., a new company in which he will be in business...
...Willys Motors announced a new two-passenger sports car, the Kaiser Darrin 161, designed by Howard A. Darrin, who has done cars for Packard and Lincoln as well as custom cars for Rita Hayworth and Errol Flynn. Like Chevrolet's Corvette, the Darrin 161 has a plastic body that weighs but 300 lbs. (total weight: 2,175 lbs.). Powered by a six-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine, it has six forward speeds and doors that slide into the front fenders instead of opening outward. Factory list price...