Word: bavaria
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...days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland. Reports of the torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth stores were a particular object of attack...
...Music in the Air"--Alvin, W. 52nd Street--Werronrath sings tuneful music, Walter Slezak is altogether ingenuous, and the whole a nicely sentimental romance in Bavaria...
Dare-Devil. In Munich dare-devil Count Anton Arco-Vally who in 1919 assassinated the then Socialist Premier of Bavaria but was set free in 1927, said candidly last week that he now intends to assassinate Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Just before the Chancellor arrived by plane in Munich-traditional Fascist headquarters -the Count was placed in a cell, still firmly maintaining that he will assassinate Herr Hitler. Just after the Chancellor left for Berlin, Munich's Police Chief claimed to have prevented an attack on Handsome Adolf's life by three men who deposited three hand grenades...
...Wilhelm II) journeyed from Doorn to Berlin in a reputed effort to sound out Chancellor Hitler on restoration. In the National Theatre at Munich the Royal box was occupied during a performance of Der Vogelhändler ("The Birdseller") last week by iron-jawed former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, his beauteous wife and her two sisters. When Bavarian stage soldiers began to sing "God be With Thee, Bavarian Lamb!" the audience burst into Monarchist cheers, hacked "Their Majesties." ¶ Because the entire Catholic Press of Prussia printed a warning against revolution and a criticism of Chancellor Hitler signed...
...Veteran Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...