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...accident that "Wine, Women and Song" has come to be the motto that the world ascribes to the easygoing, peace-loving Austrian...
These odd charges involved the alleged acceptance of bribes by the renowned and ancient University of Graz in Austria. A onetime mayor of Diisseldorf was also accused of having wangled favors from the Prussian Ministry of Public Welfare by presenting 100 lottery tickets and 100 bottles of wine to Minister Hirtsiefer. In the Press these charges were reported as facts, played up as horrible examples of corruption to be expected from politicians of the German Republic now replaced by the honest officials of the Third Reich...
...Legal beer helped boost the net profit of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., which has a machine to make 240 bottles a minute, to $4.208.000 for the year ended June 30, 1933. Beer bottle sales were beginning to stabilize when Repeal opened up the demand for wine and liquor bottles which are not regularly refilled. Owens-Illinois' net profit for the year ended June 30, 1934 was up nearly...
...Water, Wine & Order! Candles were winking in the old Neudeck manor house. When bristling Chancellor Hitler arrived in civilian clothes and sat down to dinner with President von Hindenburg, also in mufti and limping about on his cane. In a sense Neudeck is Nazidom's gift to the House of Hindenburg. Wealthy Junker admirers of Old Paul bought the estate and gave it in 1927 to Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, so that when the President died there would be no annoying inheritance tax. Later gifts of adjoining estates brought Old Paul's acres...
Over the President's wine and Teetotaler Hitler's water they discoursed upon high politics. Once again the shrunken-jowled President boomed out the useful aphorism which serves him on all occasions: '"Ordnung muss sein! We must have order!" There are times when such platitudes are the highest statesmanship, especially when dealing with an hysteric type like Adolf Hitler. His air was almost reverent as he posed two hours later with the Reichspräsident for a farewell flash portrait. As Der Führer ducked out to fly by night back to Berlin, massive Old Paul...