Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held many a sonorous title of high command: Director of Naval Intelligence, Naval Attache at the American Embassy, Commander of Destroyer Squadrons in the Battle Fleet, Director of Fleet Training, Vice Admiral in Command of Battleships, Admiral in Command of the Battle Force. The grandsons of Adam Gimbel Bavarian Jew who set up as storekeeper in Vincennes, Ind. in 1842, now control one of the largest department store chains in the U. S. Gimbel Brothers. Inc. has stores in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee and three in Manhattan. Even in 1932 Gimbel's could afford to lose...
...eaten rags near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess in a corner of the garden. Georges Sarret had prepared carefully for his chosen profession of insurance murderer by studying medicine, chemistry and law at Marseilles. He also needed confederates. These he found in the persons of the Bavarian sisters Philomena and Catherine Schmidt who had been unofficially accused as German agents during the War. Methodical M. Sarret found the Schmidt sisters elderly, invalid husbands and insured them. The husbands promptly died and Georges Sarret pocketed most of the insurance money on threat of turning the Schmidt sisters over...
Nazis busied themselves during the week at the expense of the Jews in the Bavarian town of Gunzenhausen. It began when storm troopers piled into a Jewish saloon to reprimand an "Aryan" at the bar. In the excitement a Jew spat on a storm trooper. He got away somehow, fled from house to house, finally hanged himself. Meanwhile the whole town had turned out for a finish fight. A little racial war rammed up and down the streets of Gunzenhausen for hours. Soon the jail was jammed with prisoners, all Jews, and the wounded of both sides crawled home...
...Shatter'd Lamp is helped through some awkward soliloquies by intelligent performances, notably the hollow-eyed acting of Effie Shannon. She plays the Jewish wife of mild, aryan, pacifist Professor Opal (Guy Bates Post) who teaches in a Bavarian university. Their son Karl (Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau...
Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom...