Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week Berlin considered that Washington had acted with intolerable presumption, and Dr. Schacht, fighting mad, was reported to have exclaimed, "They mean to kill our trade with them? All right, let's kill their trade with us! Afterward we can build it up again on a new basis...
With U. S.-German trade thus apparently due to sink toward zero, U. S. citizens this week could still buy at reduced rates for travel in Germany Tourist Marks. In Washington and in Berlin technical experts believed that surely President Roosevelt and Chancellor Hitler will now find it necessary-as foreseen by foxy Dr. Schacht-to open negotiations and make a brand new deal on U. S.-German trade...
Next door to Greece is Bulgaria. Last week its Little Tsar Boris, also troubled by Reds, was on a swift trip to consult Mussolini in Rome, then Hitler in Berlin. Nebulously an international European Fascist solidarity seemed forming to counter-balance the Communist International...
Last week in Berlin, daily crowds of 110,000 packed the gigantic new Olympic Stadium. Below them cavorted the finest athletes in the world. In the press stand sat 1,500 reporters, hundreds more than customarily report League of Nations doings at Geneva. Whether or not the Olympic Games actually serve their purpose of promoting international understanding remains dubious. That they afford harmless amusement to participants & spectators, a valuable chance for ballyhoo to the nation which holds them, no one is better aware than Realmleader Adolf Hitler, who attended every session except one last week, inspired his loyal Nazi followers...
Hero Owens. In 1924 Finn Paavo Nurmi won three Olympic races. Last week at Berlin, Cleveland's coffee-colored Jesse Owens bettered this achievement. On the first day of competition he broke the world's record for 100 metres in a trial heat (10.2 sec.). On the second day, he won the final in world-record time (10.3). On the third, he won the broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with...