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...Perhaps the stark horror of these facts can be better impressed on the gulled public by noting that the combat airplanes are Kaiser-Frazer 2's, the tanks were used to water Jefferson's horse on Inaugural Day, 1801, and the generals are not used to water in any form...
...Senate Committee probing RFC last week drew a bead on one of RFC's best customers-Kaiser-Frazer Corp. In a 30-page report, the Committee charged RFC should not have made a $34 million loan to K-F in October 1949. Even though K-F would have gone bankrupt without it, said the Committee, K-F's prospects of repaying out of earnings were so dim that "the public [interest]...did not justify the use of public funds to continue operation of K-F as an auto company." Following the first loan, K-F tapped...
Died. Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst von Hohenzollern, 69, eldest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Pétain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria...
...hope of promoting themselves as the champions of German unity. East German President Wilhelm Pieck in person attended the opening session in East Berlin's graceful Gothic Marienkirche (he tried to slip in through the center portal usually reserved for brides, bishops and, in the old days, the Kaiser, but was hurriedly eased over to a side door...
...When Kaiser sued, SEC tried to revoke Otis & Co.'s underwriting license, but Eaton won the case in court. The National Association of Securities Dealers then stepped in and suspended him for two years. Eaton has managed to hold that up pending an appeal to SEC. With the K-F decision against him, Eaton may well lose the N.A.S.D. fight. He also faces another battle with SEC to keep from being banned from underwriting for good...