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...Fascist leaders were painfully anxious not to lose face with the Germans. "Pay attention to uniforms," Ciano cued himself for a visit to Germany. "We must be more Prussian than the Prussians." Mussolini repeatedly lectured Ciano on "the necessity for redeeming Italy's reputation as a faithless nation. Bismark used to say that you can't have a policy with Italy when she is faithless both as friend and foe." Yet no one took a more contemptuous view of the Italian people than Mussolini himself. One incident or another kept him boiling. "The Duce has been made furiously...
Germany, since Bismark's day, through Hitler's regime, and under Allied Occupation, has steadily developed sickness insurance...
Hermanns compared the present German mind to two drawers, one of which contains the Bible, Faust, Shakespeare's plays and a general knowledge of literature, while the other contains Mein Kampf, the works of Bismark and Frederick the Great, and the legends of the Teutonic Knights. In moments of crisis the German, Hermmans continued, discards the first drawer as "foreign thought values" and turns to the drawer which glorifies...
...exporting. Not even in a company with the rugged tradition of Texaco was there room for two such rugged individuals as Torkild Rieber and Texaco's President Ralph Clinton Holmes. President Holmes, being the less rugged, was forced out in 1933. To make the break less apparent Charles Bismark Ames was made board chairman, allowed to run the company until he died last month. Last week, when Torkild Rieber, who wears rough brown suits and still speaks with an accent, assumed the chairmanship in Manhattan, it was merely to become Texaco's strong man in name as well...
Died. Charles Bismark Ames, 64, board chairman since 1933 of Texas Co. and its affiliate, Texas Corp.; of a heart attack; in Meredith...