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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other passengers who left the Europa in limousines were booed and razzberried on the chance that they might be Dr. Hanfstaengl. He left the pier on a tug provided by the North German Lloyd, dined uptown and went to a night club with Harvard friends bent on escorting him to the reunion at Cambridge of his class of 1909. "You call me 'Putzy' as you did at Harvard," he beamed, "but in Berlin they call me 'Hanfy Hanfstaengl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Hitler's Hanfy | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...stop the furious squabbling among Nazi groups bent on founding a 100% Teuton religion. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, himself a Roman Catholic, recently ordered them to unite as Die Deutsche Glaubens Bewegung (The German Faith Movement). Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting ''Back to Wotan!" Others cautiously preparing to argue for "mild revision of the Bible to make it less Jewish." Keynoters were Nazi Editor Fritz Gericke and Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 65-year-old Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Soul Throbs | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...vote of confidence on his program of deflation, reduced taxes and smaller dole payments. Vexed, a few Liberals split off from the Catholic-Liberal coalition and the Catholic Premier went down on the first bill by the narrow vote of 83 to 79. He sped to the Royal Palace, bent on resigning with his Cabinet. By that time the Queen had reached her crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Albert of Liege | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...abrogating gold contracts (1934), cotton control bill (1934), raising the income tax (1934) A self-proclaimed reactionary, he suspects all New Deal legislation, believes the Democratic recovery program is composed of "mere relief measures." Legislative hobbies: As party whip he has found little time to pursue any personal legislative bent except public education. For years he was chairman of the Library Committee, which governs the Library of Congress. He fought the League of Nations in the stormy '20's, favored U. S. participation in the World Court. In appearance he is red-faced, small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1934 | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Frederic William Ilfeld, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, to be Assistant in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. A.B. 1928; M.D. 1932; 1932-33, House officer at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; 1933-34 House officer at the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY | 6/1/1934 | See Source »

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