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...well-known family of international diplomats is that of Gade (rhymes with dada), which stems from the late Gerhard Gade, onetime Norwegian Minister to the U. S. His son. Captain John A. Gade. is U. S. Naval attache in Brussels, his grandson, Gerhard, U. S. Second Secretary at Quito. Another son, F. Herman Gade (John's brother, Gerhard's father), used to be Norwegian Consul at Chicago and mayor of Lake Forest, Ill., is now chatelain of the Chateau du Mesnil-St. Denis near Paris. Last week Chatelain F. Herman Gade had trouble with a tenant...
...they had been more astute in investments than any other big financial group, grounded the fair conclusion that policyholders had suffered less in depression than bank depositors, brokers' customers, stockholders of investment trusts. Toward the close of the hearing last fortnight, SEC's grey-haired young inquisitor, Gerhard Gesell, showed however, that the record of insurance companies beyond the control of such strict States as New York and Massachusetts had been something less than perfect...
...doctor whom Hitler appointed to be Führer of National Socialist Health turned out to be a naturopath. He licensed faith healers and all manner of quacks. Last year this Führer, Dr. Gerhard Wagner, died. His successor is not, as strongly rumored in U. S. medical circles, a veterinarian, but is in fact a well-trained pediatrician named Leonardo Conti, son of Hitler's solidly buxom "Führerin of Midwives...
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...both countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else in the background...