Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked the elder, Joseph Austen, for the great one. Austen went from Rugby to Trinity College, Cambridge, was staked to further polishing in Paris and Berlin, returned to become his father's secretary, to make a maiden speech in the Commons "dear and refreshing to a father's heart." Bathed by his father's setting sun, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903. For his work as Britain's Foreign Secretary (1924-29) he got the Nobel Peace Prize and the almost unprecedented honor, for a commoner, of being raised at one stroke...
...intrigued there ceaselessly ever since. His family are big in German industry, and big Austrian industrialists recently sat up all night in his legation with Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank. as the pot simmered (TIME, June 29). One day last week Adolf Hitler slipped out of Berlin, ensconced himself near Austria's frontier among the motto-encrusted sofa cushions of his snuggery at Berchtesgaden, and von Papen laid before him the whole Deal, as concocted by Mussolini and Schuschnigg, Schacht and von Papen. The German Dictator decided to sign...
After thumbing his Nazi nose in the council chamber of the League of Nations and insultingly abusing League High Commissioner for Danzig Sean Lester, blustering President Arthur Greiser of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig arrived home by way of Berlin last week boasting: "Germany stands behind...
...Courier-Journal, Chicago News and Inter-Ocean, Washington Post, Providence Journal. In 1891 Mergenthaler Linotype Co. was formed with Philip Tell Dodge, Washington patent attorney, as its first president. Heading the present 18-acre Brooklyn plant of Mergenthaler and its affiliates - London's Linotype and Machinery, Ltd. and Berlin's Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik - are able President Joseph T. Mackey and Board Chairman Norman Dodge. Last week they signalized commercial Linotype's 50th milestone with a radio program dedicated to their best customers, the U. S. Press...
...life, a vague scheme for kidnapping royalty. The two student friends, Jerphanion and Jallez, finish their course, have one last reunion in Jerphanion's mountain home. The peace of Europe hangs in the balance when Premier Cail-laux, behind his Foreign Minister's back, intrigues with Berlin. The atmosphere of Paris grows weekly more tense, war daily more imminent...