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Died, Jonkheer Dr. C. J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, 62, president of the Tweede Kamer, lower house of The Netherlands Parliament, thrice Premier; at Vorden, in the Province of Gelderland. Reproached in 1919 for affording ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II & son refuge in the country, he blurted: "To put it bluntly, these gentlemen fell like a brick on our heads. How could we act otherwise than we have done...
Cortez and all his men could never have looked at each other with wilder surprise than these deserted children of Bunker Hill and Saratoga. In hearing from their own lips of their waning strength, one is reminded of nothing so much as that autumn day in 1918 when Kaiser Wilhelm threw up the sponge and took the next train for Holland. The rules of our country are-abdicating their thrones with distressingly little thought of what anarchy is to stalk abroad when the firm hand that has been our guide for so long has vanished...
Middle of March Phönix-Wien's pudgy little Director Wilhelm Berliner died under mysterious circumstances. Within a few days the small subsidiary Kompassbank failed and the Bourse knew that Phönix-Wien owed at least $50,000,000. When police sought Heinrich Ochsner, director of the Finance Ministry's section supervising private insurance companies, he blew his brains...
...bald little Viennese, Director Wilhelm Berliner loved a sense of power above personal comfort. Since the War he never occupied a permanent apartment. Known and respected in every chancellery in Europe, he spent about 300 nights a year on trains. He never took a sleeping car, and intimates insisted that he never slept at all. He would lock himself in a compartment every night, dictate furiously to his four secretaries. He always stopped at third-rate hotels but insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted...
...that the proud Manhattan orchestra was face-to-face with a perilous crisis. Toscanini was regarded as a musical god, incomparable and unapproachable. No ordinary successor could begin to fill his boots. The Philharmonic directors sat through many a worried session, finally offered the post to Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler who relinquished it when he heard of the stormy protests against his Nazi connections. The hunt went on until last week when five conductors were announced for a season cut down from 30 to 24 weeks. One was a Briton, one a Russian, one a Rumanian, one a Mexican...