Word: anton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survivors-eleven men-were of the S. S. Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five...
...once undertake to discipline his Philadelphia Orchestra subscribers. One of his concerts last week championed ultra-modern composers, who always seem to send Conductor Stokowski into a highly sensitive state. Last week was no exception. During the curious sounds listed as a Symphony for Small Orchestra by Anton Webern, someone sneezed. Coughs and chuckles were instantly let loose. But Conductor Stokowski did not stay to hear them. His arms fell abruptly to his sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence followed. Then, in order to fetch Stokowski, the audience decided to clap...
...week's news was that Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone had organized the city's saloons into such a perfect chain that he was selling them not only their liquor supplies but everything down to ginger ale and table linen. So Chicagoans were not excited last week when Mayor Anton J. Cermak abruptly ousted Commissioner John Alcock and appointed in his place Captain James P. ("Iron Man" ) Allman. Mayor Cermak called his City Council into special session to whip through the appointment, had the new commissioner sworn in immediately, ordered him to crusade at once against organized crime...
...police evicted a colored woman from her flat. Instantly a crowd estimated at 3.000 gathered in the street. Evidently led by Communist agitators, shouting 'Tut that furniture back!" and "We want something to eat!" they rushed the constables. Casualties: three Negroes killed, 20 Negroes and whites injured. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered further evictions to cease. ¶Near Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., occurred Lynching No. 4 for the year. The victim, Oscar Livingston, 23, had been jailed on a charge of attempted rape of a young white woman. Eight days after his incarceration a band of masked white...
Married. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania; and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, second eldest son of Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg, aviator, onetime employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in the palace of Pelesch, Sinaia, Rumania. Girl & Boy Scouts held the bride's train. Dowager Queen Marie wept immoderately. In the middle of the ceremony one of the tall candles fell off the altar, a brown butterfly fluttered over the bride's head. These were considered ill omens...