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...Chancellor Hitler, just before the Nazi revolt broke, inspected the great Krupp works at Esse-n. Instead of passing this off as a trivial event. Publisher Hitler's personal news-organ covered its entire front page with militant pictures from Essen showing the Chancellor promenading with Master Armorer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach...
...Federation of Labor is the American Federation of Government Employes. Lodge 91 of the A. F. G. E. is the union of NRA workers. Head of that union is one John L. Donovan who worked for NRA's Labor Advisory Board. Two of his superiors, Leo Wolman and Gustav Peck, had filed complaints against him. For appearance's sake, however, General Johnson hesitated to fire the head of his employes' union...
...feelings overflowed in a flood of Johnsonese. Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave." Said the NRA union: "In order to build a case, Donovan's immediate superior, Gustav Peck, was called in to allege in efficiency. Peck said Donovan was A. W. O. L. two days-last October! . . . His 'insubordination' was refusal to remove his delegation until another appointment was made. . . . Several of General Johnson's subordinates have been trying to 'get' President...
...glories. Yet Friedrich Alfred failed in one important respect: he left no make heir to carry on. It took Kaiser Wilhelm II to solve this difficulty. When big buxom Bertha, Friedrich Alfred's daughter, came of marriageable age Wilhelm betrothed her to protege of his own selection and training; Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach--and it was the groom, not his bride whose name changed by the betrothal. He then became Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Under this new head of the house, who took command in 1909, Krupp went further still, supplied fifty-two countries with arms before...
...benefit of photographers the ceremony was repeated. Then the President went up the gangplank, putting Governor, Mayor, secretary, photographers, newsmen behind. With Vincent Astor on the bridge beside his cheerful, ruddy-faced skipper Captain Gustav Klang, the Nourmahal nosed carefully down the 18-mile reach of river toward the open sea. Behind her like a vigilant watchdog for the fortnight's cruise glided the U. S. destroyer Ellis...