Word: angells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the vultures found ripe carrion, a pile of 45 framed etchings at $2 each. They were rather smudgy plates by someone obviously impressed by William Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over...
...Braun who had been Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that his "Cabinet of Monocles" will carve up and partition the Free State of Prussia-which is approximately two-thirds of all Germany...
Purpose of this angelic carving was seemingly to give first Prussia and later the whole Reich a highly centralized rule with all reins held tightly at Berlin-just as Paris holds the reins of France. In the French Republic there are no "States," free or otherwise, but only "departments."' Germany teems with "free states" such as Prussia and "free cities" such as Hamburg. Angel von Papen has been whittling, little by little, into German states' rights almost from the moment he became Chancellor (TIME, June...
...Tycoon Stephanson took a fancy to the doctor, offered to make his fortune. His assistant, Nurse Martha, an angel in thin disguise, fell in love with him. His cases kept him busy: a dying old woman who wanted to be kept alive long enough to say good-by to her son; a dope-fiend who had once been a nobleman; his beautiful sister who was almost ready to sell herself to Stephanson; the clever surgeon who had gambled away his reputation and his fortune. By the time the short passage was over Dr. Wohlmut had had enough concentrated experience...
...only in the financial firmament is Samuel Insull a fallen angel. Last week the trustees of the Chicago Opera met for 15 minutes to accept his resignation from their number. Then they announced "definitely but reluctantly" that there would be no Chicago Opera next season. What was needed, they frankly said, was what he had been, a "magnificent angel." Nearest man that Chicago could think of was Banker Charles Gates Dawes who, since his return from England this year and from Reconstruction Finance Corp. in Washington last month, has been thought of by Chicagoans for all sorts of jobs, right...