Word: rudolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans' $65,000,000 Hibernia Bank & Trust Co.-third largest bank in the city. To New Orleans it was the fantastic second act of a drama that opened last month with the crash of the big Union Indemnity Insurance group (TIME, Jan. 16), closely associated with President Rudolf S. Hecht of the Hibernia and Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long...
...that failed subsequent to R. F. C. support, asked for a probe of the Union Indemnity situation. Declaring it "a rotten mess that should and must have full publicity," Congressman Fish also demanded the resignation of President Hecht as chairman of the New Orleans R. F. C. advisory committee. Rudolf Hecht, he charged, had known all along that Union Indemnity was tottering, and as a director he had seen to it that part of the $4,000,000 R. F. C. aid was promptly used to pay off bank loans from his Hibernia Bank & Trust...
...words and said: "We cannot stem the tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years ago. At 33 he was president. John J. Gannon, whom he displaced, spent the brief balance of his life cursing Rudolf Hecht in all public places as a double-crosser...
...people who heard the performance over the radio were fortunate not to see the plush picture-book queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...
...gaze to their heart's content at the iron cot on which old Franz Josef slept, at the basin in which ample Maria Theresa bathed. But one wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories. They are occupied by 40 lively boys, the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna), a choir which Maximilian I founded...