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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidential election (won by nobody since nobody obtained an absolute majority), 4,982,939 Communists turned out and voted for their "Red Napoleon," leather-lunged Comrade Ernst Thalmann (TIME, March 21). Last week, since everyone knew that Comrade Thalmann had not the ghost of a chance, more than a million German Reds prudently wasted no time in voting, left their Red Napoleon punctured flat and with only 3,706,388 ballots...
When he was in Manhattan last week Samuel Insull represented a tremendous industrial Empire in bad need of cash. Insulland has 13 million inhabitants, more than one-fourth of whom are customers. It employs 50,000 men. It is a conglomeration of over 150 companies. Before the difficulties of Mr. Insull's position were apparent, the securities of the Insull group had a total market value of over three billion dollars. In 1929 their combined earning power was set at a half-billion. Chief divisions of Insulland...
...more than $1,000,000 with my violin. I have this, and a wife and five beautiful children. And now, as far as the strenuous American life is concerned, I am done up with it. ... The amassing of a fortune, the gaining of fame is not all." With his million dollars Jan Kubelik bought a large estate in Hungary. Last week in Vienna he appeared in bankruptcy court, offered to settle his $125,000 liabilities at 35? on the dollar, blamed his plight on U. S. stock losses...
...publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs in the U. S.; at the peak of his business he sold them at the rate of $45,000 a month. A best seller was "The Sidewalks of New York," shrewdly revived for Alfred Emanuel Smith's 1928 campaign...
...Hitler's power was far too small to make a difference against such a popular candidate as Hindenburg, and although Hitler's following was enthusiastic and well-trained as far as it went, it was insufficient to overcome Hindenburg's total of 19 million votes," he continued. "Hindenburg was popular personally, as was shown by the fact that he polled a larger vote than could have been secured by the parties supporting him if they had been voting for seats in a Reichstag election. Hindenburg's election shows the sturdy common sense of the majority of the German people...