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...Hitler apotheosis, former Crown Prince Wilhelm laid wreaths on the biers, espied his brother, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm standing nearby in a Fascist uniform, gave him the Fascist salute. Only last month, when Herr Hitler's fortunes seemed waning, "Auwi" was ordered by Wilhelm II to quit the Fascist Party, defied his father, glowed and strutted last week as his astuteness was vindicated. Marching in the funeral procession, 50,000 Brown Shirts and Steel Helmets (war veterans) carried last week not the flags of the Republic but those of the Empire...
...Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken $800,000 out of Kansas when...
Frederick Henry Prince quit Harvard before he was graduated, entered the brokerage business in 1881, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder. His railroad deals and manipulations soon made him one of State Street's most spectacular figures. Much of his fortune, reputed one of the largest in Massachusetts, came from Chicago Junction Railways, which he sold to New York Central for $32,000,000, and from Union Stockyards Co. Both companies were built by him in the early 1890's. A good part of each year he spends in France, either in his Paris house...
...sometimes have reflected cynically that if he had not been such a good executive he might have become a greater power. By nature, training and beard he belongs in the tradition of the earlier rail tycoons. From Rutgers, at 19, he went into railway engineering on Western roads, quit to carry a tripod with the Army Engineer Corps, quit that to survey a right of way for the Mexican National Railway. In 1883 he went to the Pennsylvania and began to make himself known. He could speedily dig out traffic stalled in snowdrifts; he reconstructed in short order a section...
Offices of the agency are in the National Press Building where nine- tenths of each weekly letter is written by Editor Kiplinger himself. He is 42, tall, sandy-haired, with a trim mustache. For several years he worked for Associated Press in Washington, quit in 1920 to research foreign trade for a bank. His task of making weekly reports and his "passion for telling people the 'innards' of things." prompted him to try circulating an impartial analytical letter to businessmen. In addition to his general news letter he publishes a fortnightly on agriculture ($25 for six months...