Word: wolff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resigned. Owen Cosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, 1st Baron of Carmarthen, 67, Chairman of 40 steamship lines (including Royal Mail, White Star, Union Castle) and building companies, a bank, a railroad, an insurance company; from the chairmanship of Harland & Wolff. Ltd. (?12,000,000 Belfast shipbuilders). When shareholders commented on his multifarious activities and companies in March, he retorted: "I do not consider 40 as many...
Into the Berlin office of Editor Theodor Wolff of the great Berliner Tageblatt strode Editor Benito Mussolini of Il Popolo D'ltalia-eight years ago. Came news last week of the first meeting between these friends since then. In the Dictator's imposing quarters at Rome they argued with friendly heat about Democracy. Il Duce, soon after he seized power, said...
Times have changed. When gruff, penetrating Herr Wolff barked, "You are the Fascist regime, we a democracy!", Il Duce bridled, made an answer of utmost significance : "I am a democrat [pause] that is, an authoritarian democrat."* As though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil...
...will tell you what conditions really are," said he to Herr Wolff. "There is an island in the Gulf of Naples where two or three hundred people are living, having been sentenced there for their political activities. They are not all opponents of the Fascist regime. Some of them are Fascists, and when I find them guilty of any offense I am more severe toward them than I am toward others. The political exiles live apart from the ordinary criminals. Each of them receives ten lire a day and when it is necessary their families also are supported. Each...
Last year Drug, Inc. bought some more stores-the 18 May Drug Stores of Pittsburgh; the eight Wolff-Wilson stores of St. Louis; and this spring the 106 Owl stores of the middle and far West. Thus there is a Drug, Inc. retail store in the business and residential districts of every fair-sized city in the U. S. and in most of those in Great Britain...