Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of these are agents of Dictator Stalin's secret police, an unavoidable feature of diplomatic life in the Soviet capital. Meanwhile in Berlin the Soviet Ambassador Jacques Suritz, a Jew who by special dispensation of Der Führer is permitted to have Aryan housemaids (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935)> was throwing the biggest Red party of the year for Ambassador & Mrs. Davies and the Ambassador's 21-year-old daughter Emlen. The 50 pieces of Davies hand luggage and the 30 trunks were dispatched to the train by the Ambassador's two male secretaries...
...from Stalin down to bring about a coup."Piatakov and Radek joined in confessing they sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind the Soviet Plan. Piatakov, extending his confession into what became a lecture, told of alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof Field, being supplied with a forged German passport with a Norwegian visa, flying on to Oslo; conferring with Trotsky, and getting back to Russia without exciting the Ogpu's suspicion. This may seem possible if the thoroughness of Soviet, German and Norwegian secret police methods...
...rumors'" barked onetime Editor Mussolini at Publisher Hitler's correspondent, "No! There is nothing that will change. On the contrary the British-Italian Mediterranean agreement will only strengthen the action of Berlin and Rome! It is the logical result of our efforts to create peace in Europe...
...young Webster left the Conservatory to go on tour. Since then he has studied under Schnabel in Berlin, played triumphantly through France, England, Holland. Germany, Italy, Russia. Manhattanites first heard him two years ago when he made his debut with the Philharmonic under Werner Janssen. He has played also with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Richmond symphonies. Last month he played in the White House after the Cabinet dinner...
...most welcome addition to the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Design is that of Walter Gropius to the Department of Architecture. Professor Gropius comes to Harvard from a private practice in London; his work during his four years there, and five years of practice in Berlin are the best proof of his prowess as an exponent of modern technique. As well as being a foremost "practical" architect, his theories of architectural design, eyed askance by traditionalists when he first advanced them, are now regarded as probably the most influential in the field of modern architecture...