Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered to junk Dr. Müller and appoint as Reich Bishop the opposition's candidate, gentle, widely beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. Herr Kerrl also offered to let the opposition nominate a majority of the members of the new German Christian Church directorate which he promised...
...Chancellor and now Minister to Austria, recently prepared a list of Austrian Nazis "who would be acceptable to Realmleader Hitler as the Cabinet of Austria." Such an act was irregular in the extreme, since Nazis and their movement are outlawed in Austria. But von Papen had his orders from Berlin and Adolf Hitler is Austrian-born. Armed with this list, top-hatted, tail-coated Diplomat von Papen arrived at Austria's famed Ballhaus ("White House"), heavy with historic memories of Metternich and the Congress of Vienna. Very small in the big rooms looked Dr. Schuschnigg. With brutal directness...
...last month fell French Novelist Henri Barbusse, soon died. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow last week fell Illinois' flower-tongued, silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis. In the suite below the one Merchant Filene had at the Hotel National, doctors called his condition "extremely critical," summoned medical supplies from Berlin and Paris...
Harvard will not send representatives to the Olympic Games at Berlin next year if the German government attempts to hinder the competition of Jewish entries, according to an announcement yesterday by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. As a member of the American Olympic committee, however, he expressed confidence that no such attempt would be made...
...Dietrich Gerhard, Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Berlin and Lecturer at the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik, will be lecturer and tutor in History during the second half-year. Dr. Gerard Pieter Kulper, of the Lick Observatory, University of California, will be lecturer on Astronomy. Ole Singstad, Chief Engineer on Tunnels, Port of New York Authority, will visit Harvard to lecture at the Graduate School of Engineering. Kenneth Vivian Thimann, Instructor in Bacteriology, California Institute of Technology, will be lecturer on Botany during the first half-year...