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When Theodore Roosevelt was discussing the marriage of his daughter to Nicholas Longworth, he confided boastfully to a perplexed Kaiser Wilhelm that he and Nick had both belonged to the Porc. At that time, Roosevelt was not alone in considering membership an important qualification for a son-in-law. Boston mothers, on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. And The Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E...
...balding, tired-looking lawyer who came close to defeating Reuter himself in the last mayoralty election (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951), Schreiber grew up on a farm in the Harz Mountains. He fought in the Kaiser's cavalry in World War I; the Nazis sacked him from his post as Prussian State Minister of Trade and Commerce; in 1945, Soviet Marshal Zhukov bounced him from his job for opposing the Communists' "land reform" program...
WILLOW Run, built by the Government for plane production by Ford in World War II and bought in 1948 by Kaiser, may end up as a General Motors plant. G.M., which leased 40% of Willow Run after its Hydra-Matic transmission plant at Livonia burned down last Aug. 12, is sounding out Kaiser Motors on the possibility of buying the huge property...
Hardest hit under the new deal will be the expansion plans of big industrial power users, particularly the aluminum industry, which uses more than a third of Bonneville's electricity. Said one Kaiser official: The new contracts "push into the misty distance any future industrial expansion in the Pacific Northwest...
...brightest young graduate researchers at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the mid-20s were Fritz Albert Lipmann and Hans Adolf Krebs. Both took their work in biochemistry with utmost seriousness, but they never discussed the possibility of future fame. They would have been even less likely to do so if they had been able to foresee the course of German politics. Both were Jews...