Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steigel, a Bavarian, came here, set up a glass factory in Manheim, Pennsylvania, in 1765, and employed only glassblowers of German extraction. Caspar Wistar, from whom the Wistarburg glass takes it name, founded his factory in 1738 in Salem County, New Jersey...
...Still on vacation in his rustic Bavarian snuggery, Adolf Hitler last week took time off from such joys as listening to the village accordionist (see cut) to commute a death sentence for the first time since he became Realmleader. With German judges now officially expected to cut their decisions in psychic accord with Herr Hitler's mental patterns (see above), interest had been keen as to what he would do in the case of one Wilhelm Keim, a youth sentenced to have his head chopped off for murdering his sweetheart. Commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment last week...
...Bronx's New York Zoological Park appeared Rupert Merkl, 52, Bavarian-born, Ossining, N. Y. farmer, claiming he had invented a snake trap. Said Curator of Reptiles Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars: "Impossible. I have never seen an effective snake trap and I know of no poison that will lure...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after a quick dash to London, was able to tell the Realmleader in his Bavarian retreat that His Majesty's Government seemed ready to capitulate, if Herr Hitler would make a slight amendment in his demand which could be palmed off to the British public as a concession...
...door. In public squares all over Berlin, all over Germany, other crowds stood gaping at the trumpet horns of loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal Pilsudski of Poland. It had welcomed the newly elected delegates from the Saar making their first appearance in the Reichstag since the War, and had thundered applause when Minister...