Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sonorous Bavarian accent, Herr Wagner emphasized Herr Hitler's main points: 1) He bluntly warned German industrialists that if they cannot speed production to make the Third Reich economically self-sufficient, state capitalism will follow. This sounded more ominous in light of persistent rumors from Berlin last week that Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who has kept the Reich going by rabbit-out-of-hat financing, will resign because his economic views differ widely from those of Economic Dictator General Goring. 2) Timed to coincide with the blistering notes exchanged by Russia and Italy over the Mediterranean crises...
...Rumania's Sinaia last week the Foreign Ministers of Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (the Little Entente) met over a case of champagne for their annual get together. This year's meeting was crucial. Dictator Mussolini for months has been trying to weld Yugoslavia to his Rome-Berlin axis, to smash thei Little Entente's solidarity and isolate "pink" Czechoslovakia, a Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy...
...Cramm smartly telephoned the tennis club to find out what brand of ball would be used, religiously used the prescribed brand in practice. The committee at the last moment shifted to another brand and methodical von Cramm was quickly eliminated. The next year he decided to move to Berlin where he could receive better instruction...
...aged 19, Gottfried von Cramm leased a flat in swank suburban Charlottenburg, simultaneously entered the University of Berlin as a student of law (his family wanted him to go into diplomacy) and the exclusive Rot-Weiss Club as a student of tennis. He was soon spending most of the money that came from Oelber on lessons with famed Professional Robert Kleinschroth. Two years later, after he had progressed to the point of beating Tilden-trained Wilbur Coen Jr., he got his father's permission to marry his childhood friend, dark, vivacious Baroness Lisa von Dobeneck, and to abandon...
Olympic Hurdler Forrest Towns had been doing training camp work there to make up University of Georgia credits he lost last summer when he went to Berlin. A track meet was scheduled for Visitors Day, and Hurdler Towns, a fine all-round athlete, was expected to dominate it.* Admittedly he could beat any man at his specialty. Question was: could he beat a horse? Forthwith he was matched against Tommy Roberts, a prize cavalry horse in the light hunter (jumping) class. U. S. Army qualifications for such a horse : must be sound, five years old, 15 hands high. Distance...