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...groups: Moderates 229 Monarchists 141 Communists 59 Others 19 Individuals. Among the more prominent men elected or reflected: Chancellor Marx (Moderate), Foreign Minister Stresemann (Moderate), Count von Bernstorff, ex-German Ambassador to the U. S. (Moderate), ex-Chancellor Wirth (Moderate), the notorious "brawler" Erich von Ludendorff (Monarchist), Prince Otto von Bismarck (Monarchist), nephew of the Iron Chancellor; bewhiskered Admiral von Tirpitz (Monarchist...
...Gold medals of the Academy for 'distinguished scientific achievement were awarded to: Otto Sven Petterson, Sweden, for studies in the chemistry and physics of the sea; Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge, Eng land, for his interpretation of the Einstein theory applied to astronomical problems; C. V. Ludwig Charlier, Sweden, for contributions to astronomy; Bashford Dean, Columbia, for his Biography of Fishes; William Morton Wheeler, Harvard, for his Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition; Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, for his study of the North American Bryozoa (small marine animals). The medals to foreign scientists were received by their respective embassies...
Bradford Mills, business manager of the whole project, at a backers' luncheon, held in the palatial Hotel St. Francis, made the following interesting statement, after a congratulatory telegram from Otto H. Kahn had been read...
...Otto Kahn standing at attention; Mr. John D. Rockefeller burning his tongue with hot milk...
...same simple and sincere way. But at length he accepted a barony, excusing himself on the ground that he was getting too old for letter-writing." There is another, about a Lord who was "wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice; he was, in fact, so wealthy that Mr. Otto Kahn stood at attention when speaking to him and Mr. John D. Rockefeller burnt his tongue with his hot milk at the mere mention of his name." According to his publishers, Author Arlen, aged 25, "likes dancing and baccarat and is a tournament tennis player." He summers between Deauville and Biarritz...