Word: sklarek
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Gustav Boess, pinochle-playing Bürgermeister of Berlin, returned to his own country last week, received a too loud welcome. Three weeks ago his triumphal tour of the U. S. was rudely interrupted with news of Berlin's noisome Sklarek scandal (TIME, Oct. 21). Brusquely the Berlin City Council ordered Mayor Boess to return immediately, tell whether he had bought Frau Boess a $1,000 fur coat from the Sklarek brothers, city contractors, and only paid $100 for it. Taking his own good time, Bürgermeister Boess returned only last week...
...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...
...Mayor Boess blanched even paler. Frau Boess, defiantly wearing her notorious fur coat, squeezed his elbow to hearten him. First up the gangplank to greet them came Berlin's acting Mayor, Bürgermeister Scholtz with a fat briefcase full of documents of the latest evidence against the Sklarek brothers and their city clothing contracts. Glumly he presented it to his superior, then ducked away to speed back to Berlin by airplane...
Even at home Herr & Frau Boess were not allowed to forget the Sklarek fur coat. Communists booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...
...That is not so!" he stormed. "Sklarek Brothers charged me $70 for that coat. That price seemed to me too low. Therefore with the approval of the Sklareks I contributed $250 to charitable institutions...