Word: berger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...still are, directed from the ramshackle, nine-story loft building at 35 East Twelfth Street, not far from Manhattan's Union Square. To its top-floor offices came the Communist International "Reps," the shadowy men with the changeable names like P. Green, G. Williams, A. Ewert, H. Berger, which in a wink of the eye might become Drabkin, B. Mikhailov, Braun or Gerhart Eisler. These were Moscow's agents. From the ninth floor the Word which they brought from Moscow was passed along to the faithful, to the party hacks on the Daily Worker and the Yiddish-language...
Before the judges wrote finis to the Nürnberg record, the world got one more close-up glimpse of the Nazi nightmare. SS Lieut. General Gottlob Berger, 52, one of the few men Himmler ever called by his first name (translated it means "Praise God"), had set up the dreaded SS Sonderkommando units. One Sonderkom-mando, one of his own officers had testified, used to pick out the prettiest Jewish girls. "They stripped them," he recounted, "injecting them with strychnine, and watched them die." The bodies, said the witness, were then boiled into soap. "Praise God" got 25 years...
...program will consist of contemporary orchestral works by Boston composers. The featured work will be the first performance of Berger's "The Exiles," a cantata written in 1943. Lukas Foss, piano soloist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will perform his piano concerto...
Students who will take part in the play are: Robert L. Berger '52, Peter H. Davison '49, John F. Keogh, Jr. '52, Jerry H. Kohn, Jr. '52, Marvin E. Mazie '52, John I. Simon 3G, and Norman S. Wexler...