Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler apotheosis, former Crown Prince Wilhelm laid wreaths on the biers, espied his brother, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm standing nearby in a Fascist uniform, gave him the Fascist salute. Only last month, when Herr Hitler's fortunes seemed waning, "Auwi" was ordered by Wilhelm II to quit the Fascist Party, defied his father, glowed and strutted last week as his astuteness was vindicated. Marching in the funeral procession, 50,000 Brown Shirts and Steel Helmets (war veterans) carried last week not the flags of the Republic but those of the Empire...
...Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken $800,000 out of Kansas when...
Frederick Henry Prince quit Harvard before he was graduated, entered the brokerage business in 1881, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder. His railroad deals and manipulations soon made him one of State Street's most spectacular figures. Much of his fortune, reputed one of the largest in Massachusetts, came from Chicago Junction Railways, which he sold to New York Central for $32,000,000, and from Union Stockyards Co. Both companies were built by him in the early 1890's. A good part of each year he spends in France, either in his Paris house...
Chicago wondered last week whether Banker Giannini would also find a place for Banker Reynolds' rotund older brother George McClelland, 68, who has been unemployed since he quit Continental Illinois at the year...
Married. Gilbert Wolff Kahn, 29, banker son of Manhattan Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, divorced husband of Anna Elizabeth Whelan Kahn, cigar store heiress; and Sara Jane Heliker, 22, Manhattan showgirl who last month quit Take a Chance at the groom's ultimatum; in Manhattan...