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...years there have been Foreman banks in Chicago. Their founder was Gerhard Foreman, a Jew who came to this country from Germany in 1850. His son, Oscar G. Foreman, 67, heads the Foreman executive committees. Oscar Foreman's nephew, Harold Edwin Foreman, serves as chairman of the board. Other Foremans have prominent executive positions in the system. Weakest spot in the Foreman system has been the large real estate interests of the banks...
Through the corridors of the Department of Commerce building and of Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week stormed an exceedingly irate Dutchman-Anthony Herman Gerhard ("Tony") Fokker. He shouted threats at the Department, at Assistant Secretary Clarence Marshall Young for the "hasty" "hostile" and "prejudiced" action of suspending Fokker planes from U. S. passenger service (TIME, May 11), hinted that certain airmail operators might cancel their contracts with the Government, out of sympathy for his cause. He issued angry statements to the Press at 4 a. m. and repudiated them at 4:30 a. m. He thrust his head...
...clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure. "The flight should not have been undertaken in existing weather conditions," he said. "I would say the human element entered very strongly into the cause of the crash...
...with whom Counsel .Untermyer did most of his dickering is tall, big-toothed Gerhard Melvin Dahl, onetime (1910-12) commissioner of street railways in Cleveland. Although New York's two systems are figuratively autonomous, Mr. Dahl is board chairman of both because of B. M. T.'s large I. R. T. holdings. Because he is the biggest figure in New York's transit business and because he played so prominent a part in the Untermyer negotiations, observers believed that, instead of losing his job if and when the unification plan becomes an actuality, he may sell...
...aircraft with head-resistance reduced to absolute minimum, has been loosely used to describe all manner of low-wing monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird's legs...