In Berlin, a man well known in Germany but little known abroad, a man feared, hated, despised, as was the sombre, inscrutable, all-powerful, Hugo Stinnesthis man was arrested on the suspicion of having defrauded the Prussian State Bank and on a charge of usury. Subsequent inves- tigation failed to substantiate the charges and the man was discharged last week.
This man is a successful banker, owner of vast metallurgical interests, a shipping magnate, proprietor of vast estates and city property, a chemical producer, a tsar of finance. German newspapers call him "King...
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