Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, Feb. 28--Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler tonight greeted the return of Germany's lost daughter, the Saar, with an "Emancipation Day" proclamation granting widespread amnesty to imprisoned persons...
...Berlin last week the Sosnowski case finally reached its grim denouement before the People's Court. This is packed exclusively with Hitler appointees, five of them aviators. Only the Realmleader can alter its judgments, which take precedence over the German Supreme Court, kicked by Nazi New Justice into discard. Normally the People's Court lets its sentences of death be known only after the guilty heads have been chopped. Last week by a great exception underground Berlin grapevines got out word that the Court had sentenced Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer to death...
...intoxicating prospect for a one-time housepainter-stretched in broad expanse before Der Reichsführer. Eight thousand German cars, cycle-cars, motorcycles, delivery wagons and trucks reduced to insignificance some 40 foreign cars shown by Italian, British, French, Czechoslovak, Belgian and Austrian firms. Glum U. S. dealers in Berlin showed nothing, protested, "Dr. Schacht has cut our quota so low that it isn't worth while. There are ten Germans who want to buy American cars for every one we can sell them...
...peaceful first-act aria under the name of the Handel Largo. The Saxon composer wrote Xerxes as a comic opera, when he was depressed by Bankruptcy woes in London. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Handel's birth, Xerxes was revived last week by the State Opera in Berlin and by the music department at the University of Chicago...
...Berlin was only mildly amused by the haremish antics, wondered why in his many operas Handel had been so content to write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came...