Word: dynastics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Julius Forstmann, 68, wool dynast (board chairman of Forstmann Woolen Co.); after long illness; in Manhattan. Belonging to the fourth generation of a woolen family, he early left his native Germany, started a new business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business...
...last week no La Follette had ever been defeated for public office in Wisconsin in the 20th century. For 25 years the late great political dynast Robert Marion La Follette kept getting himself elected regularly as Governor or Senator. When he died in 1925, his son & namesake inherited his seat in the Senate, his power at home. Two years ago his younger son. Philip Fox La Follette, first charged into the State arena to joust Walter Jodok Kohler, stalwart Republican, out of the governorship. In last week's primaries Mr. Kohler, middle-aged manufacturer of plumbing fixtures ("Kohler of Kohler...