Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During a dinner given on July 27, in celebration of the Anglo-Turkish treaty at Berlin, Benjamin Disraeli characterized William Gladstone, Liberal opponent of the Prime Minister's Eastern policy, as "a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself."-ED. Details...
Henchmen of Minister President General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, autocrat of the German Four-Year Plan of Rearmament and Autarchy, have long since occupied the Ministry of Economics (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.), yet Berlin correspondents have been unable to get confirmation that Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has actually resigned as Minister of Economics. Last week Dr. Schacht went to a cocktail party staged in farewell to U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins who is being transferred from Berlin to London...
Three whole days later Berlin correspondents still were unable to get any official German source to confirm that Dr. Schacht is no longer Minister of Economics. Apparently mystic Adolf Hitler wants to keep for Germany the talismanic kudos of the Schacht name in the world of international finance, while at the same time permitting General Göring to indulge in expenditures for rearmament on a scale Dr. Schacht has warned is beyond the practical limits of Germany's resources. From 1 p. m. until 6 p. m. one day last week General Göring conferred with...
When Erna Sack, a comely blonde stenographer in Berlin, saved her pfennigs to study voice, she thought she was a mezzo-soprano. So did her first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival...
Meanwhile "Germans" in the Republic of Czechoslovakia were being egged on by the official Berlin press to demand "autonomy." There were even lurid rumors in Prague that Nazis were scheming the assassination of Czechoslovak President Dr. Eduard Benes. He, famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," cracked out activity in Czechoslovakia by prohibiting for the time being political meetings of any party in the republic...