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...millions of unemployed. But he had taken to writing poetry, and this proved to have a practical value. A millowner in Ebingen read some of Kurt's published verse, was so impressed that he offered to sponsor his university education. Kiesinger chose the law, spent one year at T??bingen University, then transferred to the University of Berlin...
...Bonn & Back. At the time of his clearance, Kiesinger was practicing law in his beloved Swabia, later settled his wife, daughter and son in T??bingen not far from his boyhood home. Germany's political factions were encouraged by the occupation authorities to regroup on a county and city level as a first stage toward forming state and national governments. Kiesinger felt drawn to the newly formed Christian Democrats, whose membership embraced both Catholics and Protestants. When the first postwar elections were held in 1949 for a West German government, Kiesinger was one of the winners...
Principal Kreuger company is Swedish Match?Svenska T??ndsticks. It makes 66% of the world's matches, controlling 250 plants in 43 nations. In 1930 its earnings came to $13,000,000. This company's growth was due to Ivar Kreuger's efforts and its rise paralleled his own. Sweden's match industry began in the latter part of the 19th Century. Small factories sprang up all over the country. In 1903 a merger of many of the companies formed Vulcan Match Manufacturing Co. which began to force the smaller companies out. In 1907 Ivar Kreuger, then 27, arrived...
...ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques T??verlin, artist-spectator of the tragicomedy; Landholzer. madman or genius, who has escaped from the world into an asylum. So carefully, logically, adroitly has Feuchtwanger marshaled the army of his characters that their individual stories move together like an orderly procession; you seem to see the movement of a whole people. Author...