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...With James McKeen Cattell (see p. 52) he was one of the late great Psychologist William Max Wundt's first pupils. Later he married the daughter of a Schleswig-Holstein publisher, and did newspaper work himself. On the Frankfurter Zeitung he ridiculed the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible plans, recanted, joined the Zeppelin company, learned navigation, of which he had some skill from childhood at his native town of Flensburg...
Back in the Sober Seventies the typewriter tinker was a faithful reader of The Weekly Tribune founded by Editor Horace Greeley. Years after he left New York state and moved across the Atlantic to settle in Tinglev, Schleswig, the Danish mechanic remembered the great U. S. editor. When he begat a son in Tinglev, he named the man-child?today chief of the German delegation in Paris?Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. The onetime plowboy was. of course, General Electric's Owen D. Young, chief negotiant for the U. S. in Paris, chairman of the Second Dawes Committee...
Also plainly visible from the fjord is Norse King Haakon's long, plaster-white Kongelige Slot or royal palace. Among connoisseurs the Slot is recognized as Norway's architectural family skeleton. Cheaply and hastily thrown together when the present dynasty of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg was established in Norway in 1905, it compares pitiably with Sweden's imposing Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm (Venice of the North), whence came last week Princess Martha to Oslo. As every Scandinavian knows the Kings of Sweden were also the elected Kings of Norway from 1814 until 1905, when the Storting (parliament...
Ineffectual Prince August Wilhelm is just now the freak in Count von Westarp's Monarchist side show. His plump, effectual onetime spouse, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, divorced him in 1920. Their son, Prince Ferdinand, just about to turn swart 16, already drills with a Monarchist "Youth Corps...
...Schleswig-Holstein Question," Professor Langer, Harvard...