Word: kaiser
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Both Germans and hyphenated Americans developed the Museum. It was the dream of Kuno Franke, Professor of German History. Its first pieces were gifts of Kaiser Wilhelm, while Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis malt-and-hops king, and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger endowed the building itself...
Scheduled in 1916, the opening of the Museum was delayed six years because of the first World War. Hatred of the Kaiser was so intense in Cambridge that attendants hustled his full-length portrait into hiding in the bell tower. Nevertheless, the very presence of something German in Cambridge stirred suspicion. The story floated around that the unusually heavy foundations of the building were really gun emplacements, from which Hindenburg's Big Berthas were to lob shells into the heart of Boston. Public pressure closed the Museum's doors during the second War as well...
...Kaiser-Frazer, which is jacking up horsepower in its Kaiser line, plans to make 1,000 sport cars with plastic bodies, made by California's Glasspar Co. (TIME, Feb. 18). K-F's new model will weigh about 2,000 Ibs., cost about $2,000, v. $1,450 for the 2,300 lb. Henry...
Courage. Kurt Schumacher had worked fiercely all his life, and always in opposition. The only son of a Prussian civil servant in the fortress town of Kulm (now part of Red Poland), he joined the Kaiser's army in 1914; six months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp., which has grubstaked Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to some $50 million, last week decided to ride along on the mule as well. To K-F's board of directors, the RFC appointed their own representative,* 26-year-old Detroit Lawyer Alan E. Schwartz. A Harvard Law School graduate (1950) who had caught RFChairman Harry McDonald's eye when pleading cases before government bureaus, Schwartz will attend all of K-F's board meetings, keep tabs on the company's finances (K-F's losses in the past seven years: $53 million). Explained...