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Died. Princess Hermine, 59, who married Germany's late exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, a year after the death of his Kaiserin, Augusta Victoria; reportedly of acute tonsilitis and a heart ailment; in Frankfurt an der Oder, Soviet zone of Germany. Soon after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess' crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine's tea), then decided to drop the investigation: "It is definitely...
...Charge. Henry J. Kaiser joined the fray. As owner of the $123 million, Government-financed Fontana (Calif.) steel plant and part owner of Portsmouth Steel Corp., he was nominally on the side of the industry. But in a nationwide broadcast, Kaiser, to no one's surprise, joined the industry's critics. Said...
Investigation of the missing royal jewels of the late Princess Hermine, widow of Germany's last Kaiser, was dropped as an internal German affair by the U.S. Army's C.I.D. yesterday as they released Fraulein Vera Herbst, reputed consort of Hermine's son, Prince Ferdinand...
...Kaiser had blustered his way to the top, where he convinced WPB Boss Donald Nelson of the worthiness of his idea. Nelson said go ahead, and RFC Chairman Jesse Jones produced the Government cash. Kaiser picked Howard Hughes as his partner in the venture. Witness Merrill C. Meigs, Hearst executive and senior consultant in WPB's aviation division, recalled with awe: "Kaiser is one of the world's greatest salesmen, in a class with Diamond Jim Brady and Bill Sunday...
Bluster & Ballyhoo. What these facts proved was that bluster and ballyhoo had been a big force in wartime Washington. The final super-cargo-plane contract turned out to be for only three 200-ton craft. Kaiser lost interest in the scheme and later bowed out, muttering darkly about a "mysterious kiss-off." With Hughes on his own, the contract shrank to one plane which has never yet flown...