Word: germane
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When the 8,500-ton German freighter Hermod docked at Baltimore last week, a mustached newsman who looks more like a diplomat than a reporter was on hand to greet captain & crew in impeccable German. The one-man reception committee for the first German ship to visit the U.S^ since 1941 was Detlev Friedrich Achaz, Reichsgraf und Graf von der Schulenburg, 40, a newcomer to the U.S. himself. He is the first fully accredited German correspondent in the U.S. since Pearl Harbor. Reporter Schulenburg, already "Schuley" to fellow correspondents, is stationed in Washington and represents Deutsche Press Agentur, biggest news...
...energetic Schuley, it was a characteristically busy week. Besides the Hermod's arrival, Reporter Schulenburg covered a dozen stories with "local angles," e.g., the Senate debate on dismantling German plants, and went to six parties and several private dinners. A debonair addition to the capital's diplomatic and social salons but no mere cocktail correspondent, Schuley has filed 200 stories to D.P.A. since he landed in New York five months...
Though the Nazis stamped him as "politically unreliable,"* Schuley served in the German air force as a captain, survived a bombing that cost him his left eye, was captured in 1945 and spent nearly four years in Russian prison camps and hospitals...
Enter Adolphus. The Anheusers and the Busches got together in St. Louis before the Civil War, when Adolphus and Ulrich Busch, young sons of a vast family (21 children) of German immigrants, married two daughters of Erberhard Anheuser, a small and not very successful brewer. Son-in-law Adolphus, who combined a Teutonic genius for organization with the salesmanship of a pitchman, soon built up annual production to 25,000 barrels. In 1876, he got a new and better beer formula from a local restaurateur and called the new brew Budweiser...
General Clay reported that the German people have learned to place a higher value on their new freedom, that it will not be so easy to deprive them of it in the future...