Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German and Sudeten press gleefully asserted that by sending Lord Runciman Britain had "recognized" the Sudeten Germans. In Berlin, a prominent Nazi editor, with typical Aryan ineptitude, told to Associated Press (stipulating that he be not named), "No really sovereign state would accept an adviser such as Viscount Runciman. Can you imagine Switzerland, for instance, standing for such an adviser...
...Then 18, the son of a middle-class doctor, he streaked for Vienna, heard about the newly established Bauhaus, moved to Germany and then Paris, where his furniture designs had given him a reputation, was called back to Germany to become a Bruhaus professor at 23, a Berlin architect...
Married. Katherine Mackay O'Brien, daughter of Postal Telegraph's Clarence H. Mackay, older sister of Mrs. Irving Berlin; to Attorney Robert Ziemer Hawkins of Reno; in Reno. Mrs. Hawkins' first husband (divorced 1937) is New York Supreme Court Justice Kenneth O'Brien...
Some genealogists claim that Rochefeuille or Rocquefeuille was the original name of the oil clan Rockefeller. Last week, a Dr. Yoss, archivist from the Rhineland, announced from Berlin that the Rockefeller ancestors were originally called Rockenfeller. Commented John D.'s 26-year-old grandson Winthrop: "interesting...
Thirty-four years ago, an ardent young Russian girl named Angelica Balabanoff spoke at a Socialist meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was no new experience for her. She had left her comfortable, stuffy, middle-class home at 17; studied at Brussels, Berlin, Rome; joined the Italian Socialist Party; edited a women's paper. As a speaker she had been cheered by radicals and chased by reactionaries until she lost all self-consciousness on the platform. But during her speech at Lausanne, she was distracted by the most wretched-looking human being who had ever appeared in her audiences...