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Some romance usually invests anyone who violates the social code in a grand manner, but no romance relieves the drab career of Walter Wolf, embezzler extraordinary. He stole upward of $2,000,000, perhaps as much as $4,000,000, and never benefited materially from a cent of it, nor did anyone else except the brokers. Wolf and his wife and daughter lived and dressed simply, their car was small, his recreation was gardening about his home, he attended the local Lutheran church. His superiors considered him the faithful plodding kind who might...
...vice presidents Dr. Karl Arnstein, builder of 70 Zeppelins for Germany, and Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, U. S. N., retired, and his well-thatched vice president Fred M. Harpham. Front & centre Mrs. Hoover's place would be marked by the end of a red-white-&-blue ribbon leading upward to a small closed hatch in the underside of the dirigible's snout...
...National Biscuit's showing of $9,406,000 against $10,036,000 was chagrining to the company. It represented only $1.37 a share against dividend requirements of $1.40. And it was the first interruption to the company's upward trend since 1915. A happier showing was made by Loose-Wiles (Sunshine) Biscuit Co. to which the period brought earnings of $1,067,000 against...
Quietly, modestly, but authoritatively and rapidly Dr. Brüning forged upward to Party Leadership which he assumed in 1929. He was and is close to Dr. Gottfried Treviranus, "Hindenburg's Colonel House." It was as the potent old President's protege that Dr. Brüning became German Chancellor (TIME, April 7, 1930) before he was known to Who's Who. In amazement people all over Germany asked each other, "Who is our new Chancellor...
...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...