Word: schmitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agricultural cooperation, etc.) are the basis of modern theories about ant society. Beginning as a specialist in the red ant, Father Wasmann eventually gathered specimens of most of the 3,500 known species of ants. When he died in 1931, he left the collection to another Jesuit entomologist, Father Schmitz, who added to it his own great collection of phorid flies (a species of hunchbacked insect...
Chicago's Helen Curtis has a system comparable to the Oxford. Boston's Phil Saltman, in a more brash, jazzy way, and Oakland, Calif.'s E. Robert Schmitz, in a more highbrow way, have pioneered in teaching new methods. Though teachers like these are busy teaching other teachers, the oldtimers are still in the majority, and most U.S. piano-moppets must still struggle with Czerny...
...Aniline does not need chemists or executives as much as it needs friends. Judge Mack replaces D. A. Schmitz (brother of the German Dye Trust's Hermann Schmitz) who disappeared last month in an offhand Aniline announcement that he was "not now . . . president." Mack's election, the Aniline board evidently believes, will help uncloud the company. But the solution of the Aniline problem is not so simple as that...
...Aniline's relationship both to Chemie and to the German Dye Trust. Several Wall Street groups, which admire the company more than its present management, are trying to buy control from the Swiss. But the present management wants the management control left where it is now. Mack-for-Schmitz is their opening gambit...
...intimacy was ostensibly terminated a year ago; I. G. Chemie paid I. G. Farben 25,000,000 Swiss francs, and the Farben's interest in I. G. Chemie seemed almost to vanish. But General Aniline's outward characteristics remained not Swiss but German. Its president, Dietrich A. Schmitz, is a brother of the chairman of the board of I. G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. Walter H. vom Rath, Aniline's secretary, is the son of a Schmitz predecessor as chairman of the Farben. General Aniline had some distinguished American directors when the Germans...