Word: wendel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wendel. At this point the proceedings dipped into pure fantasy. Fortnight ago members of New Jersey's Court of Pardons mysteriously received copies of a 25-page "confession" to the Lindbergh kidnapping signed by one Paul H. Wendel, a 50-year-old Trenton lawyer who was disbarred in 1920 after conviction of perjury, later voluntarily spent three weeks under observation in an insane asylum, was charged in 1931 with embezzlement and fraud but escaped trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives...
...other hand, fusty, old Flower Hospital, which John D. Rockefeller helped finance before he thought of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has had an unwieldy $4,000,000 ever since reclusive Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died (TIME, March 23, 1931). The $4,000,000 is tied up in Manhattan real estate whose income is not enough for Flower Hospital to put up new buildings but is enough to pay Fifth Avenue Hospital's annual deficit...
Proudly last week Samuel Henry Kress watched his name in mighty granite letters emerging on the Fifth Avenue facade of his newest 5-10-25? store, which is rapidly nearing completion on the Manhattan site of the famed old Wendel house...
...Communists and extreme Socialists, their spleeny spokesman being Pinko Deputy Leon LaGrange who had declared in debate, "The 200 families who rule this country are opposing the National will!" These villains, Deputy La-Grange said, are headed by "the regents of the Bank of France, de Rothschild and de Wendel!" In French villages sage peasants with gold in their mattresses laughed at the Pinks...
...Krupp or Schneider was present, though Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Eugene Schneider were represented by trusted agents. Only the exalted French munitions family of de Wendel candidly sent a representative bearing its great name, eldest brother Humbert de Wendel. Ostensibly the 107 delegates of Europe's munitioneers were meeting as the International Railmakers' Association, and on the Riviera also was that blithe international railmaker, Charles M. Schwab. Explained he: "My doctors say I react favorably to the excitement of roulette...