Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost impossible to view the problem of American participation in the Olympic games at Berlin from a completely unbiased point of view. Social and Political questions have almost crowded the athletic aspect right off the stage, but one must not lose sight of the fact that participation in the Olympic games in 1936 is by no means an endorsement of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi principles of government...
Last week the Soviet secret service smelled in Berlin quiet British efforts to obtain by means of concessions to Germany the co-operation of Realmleader Adolf Hitler in boycotting Italy. This discovery threw the Soviet Union overnight from high gear into low so far as the League is concerned. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose voice at Geneva has been loudest against Il Duce, abruptly decided not to attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe...
...produced by Tri-Art Enterprises). This farce was first staged seven years ago by The Studio (experimental annex) of the Moscow Art Theatre, has since become the most popular of Soviet comedies. More than a million Russians have seen it. It has been produced in Paris, Vienna, London, Rome, Berlin (by Max Reinhardt) and by numerous amateur and stock companies in the U. S. Consistently boisterous and occasionally funny, it is supposed to show that Russians can laugh at the pomposities of Communist doctrine under the tolerant eye of the Soviet high command, which knows a good safety-valve when...
...home cinema and 6 by 8 inches in size can be transmitted. Blond, young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who rose from obscurity with the help of San Francisco bankers, has leased his system to England and Germany where broadcasting is in government hands. Currently television is regularly broadcast from Berlin...
...royal Swedish horse lost its footing, sank, threw 77-year-old King Gustav V. Pulled out of the bog, His Majesty sucked a bruised finger, quipped "When one is young these things don't matter." William Edward Dodd, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, sent by airplane from Berlin to Moscow a package of hominy grits for silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois recuperating from pneumonia...