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...destroyers, nine gunboats, three submarines, a fine Danube River flotilla. Tashaul, to be completed by 1941, will be 30 times as big as Constantsa, Rumania's biggest port, will be defended by heavy artillery purchased from Germany, will have both a naval and commercial port, will dock the largest ships...
...Grand Jury had indicted Moses Louis Annenberg on ten counts of income-tax evasion. Publisher Annenberg, said the Grand Jury, had wilfully neglected to pay $3,258,809.97 in taxes, plus penalties and interest of $2,289,574.92-a smashing total of $5,548,384.89, which made this the largest criminal tax-evasion case in U. S. history, not excepting Alphonse Capone...
...Pastry Chef Hans Rohrbeck in 1904 used to bake the Kaiser's Streusselkuchen every morning in Kranzler's, a royally appointed Unter den Linden confectionery. The Kaiser's taste then was for Kuchen with only the very largest Streussel possible on top of it. Rohrbeck came to the U. S. in 1908, became a citizen in 1913, lost his job this year after some 30 years as a pastry chef in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit. When even his yum-yum recipe for Streusselkuchen* failed to find him a post over the radio, Hans Rohrbeck went...
Less than a month later Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, second largest stockholder in Kansas City Southern (largest: Amsterdam Trust Office, The Netherlands), became its president. Between expanding his inland public-utility empire and working for the New Deal as director of RFC (1932-34), Ozarker Couch had also obtained control of Louisiana & Arkansas. Of that road his younger brother (by 13 years) Charles Peter Couch has been president since Harvey gave...
Last week, contriving to avoid all the fuss & feathers they could, Rob and Bill celebrated their 50th anniversary in Rochester banking, Rob as president of Rochester Trust (third largest in town with resources of $42,540,898), Bill as vice president of the Lincoln-Alliance Bank & Trust Co., largest in Rochester and one of the 100 largest in the U. S. (resources, $86,487,946). That night they sat in honor seats at separate country-club dinners, smiled at many a twin-crack and went home early...