Word: frankfurters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifetime and the Versailles Treaty happens to be the only one we know and hear about. So it does not occur to us that if we blame the present war on the Versailles Treaty we must be logical and go farther back: for that treaty we must blame the Frankfurt Treaty of 1871 which must be blamed on some previous treaty which should be blamed on some other treaty which ought to be blamed on some other treaty which certainly must be blamed on some other treaty; and so on, ad infinitum in reverse, until the only thing left...
Jeidels was born an insider, the son of an old Frankfurt Jewish banking family. Thirty-four years ago when he was in his twenties he began his career by writing ponderous, respectable tomes on Germany's growing steel industry. Later he worked in the very unerudite Manhattan brokerage shop of art-collecting Jules Bache. By 1908 he was back in Germany with its Metal Trust (whose presiding genius, Dr. Alfred Merton, was one of the German sponsors of Dictator Franco's rebellion...
Manhattan, apprenticed in family firms in Paris, London and Frankfurt, still had a thick German accent which he kept more nearly intact than his Manhattan banking house kept its European affiliations...
...post-War twilight, Speyer & Co. floated many a foreign loan, financed railroads, built a railroad in Bolivia, power plants in Manila. But Speyer's London firm was dissolved in 1922; in 1934 the Lazard-Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt were dissolved. Latterly Speyer & Co. has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf...
...organ recital, open to the public without charge, will be given at the Harvard Germanic Museum by Ludwig Theis, organist of St. Peter's Church, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, at 8:15 o'clock tonight...