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...years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I put heart and soul into making Berlin a fitting capital of Prussia, but not until after the victorious war with France in 1871-when Bismarck founded the Second Reich, had King Wilhelm I proclaimed Emperor at Versailles-did Berlin assume world importance. Her population...
With her short history, her few landmarks, Berlin gave Herr Hitler ample room and freedom to develop his project. As a working model, he followed in broad, but greatly augmented outline, plans drawn up for and approved by Kaiser Wilhelm II shortly before the World...
...Hans Wilhelm Steinberg (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-Red). Palestine Symphony Orchestra conductor and Arturo Toscanini's new assistant makes his U.S. debut and closes the first NBC Symphony season...
Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...
Died. Baron Maximilian Hugo Converse Wilhelm von Romberg. 28, polo player and aviator, grandson of the late Edmund C. Converse, founder of Bankers Trust Co. of New York; when his airplane crashed into the North Shrewsbury River near Red Bank...