Word: otto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shout KAHN to a representative group of U. S. citizens and most will think of Otto,* a few of Genghis,† and a sprinkling of Kublai.** But to U. S. architects and automotivemen, Albert is the most famed member of the Kahn family. Soviet Rus sia, also conscious of Albert Kahn, commissioned him last week to construct vast factories at Stalingrad, at the Volga River's mouth. A tractor plant, an automobile factory and a cotton mill will be the first units in the proposed industrial group...
...Like Otto Kahn, Albert Kahn came to the U. S. from Germany (in 1879) but with no banking prospects nor heiress to wed. A job got he in an architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club...
KARL MARX: HIS LIFE AND WORK?By Otto Ruble; translated by Eden and Cedar Paul?Viking Press...
...from ridiculing Marion, Editor Anderson's friends have succumbed to his civic zeal. They have read, for example, his editorials exhorting Marion to support its Kiwanis band. Marion was flattered when Manhattan's great Otto Hermann Kahn, no Kiwanian, sent a check...
Zeppelin Tour. Having taken its first spring jaunt to Jerusalem (TIME, April 8), the Graf Zeppelin took its second, last week, to the Madeira Islands. Rising from Friedrichshafen one afternoon with 20 paying passengers, Premier Otto Braun of Prussia, and 1,200 Ibs. of mail to be dropped on cities in passing, Dr. Hugo Eckener piloted his craft across France to Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease...