Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin six foot two inch Dr. Hanfstaengl has the official job of Nazi Party spokesman to British and U. S. correspondents. During the nerve-wracking weeks of Nazi revolution he kept alert with a green bottle of smelling salts, taking great whiffs and passing the bottle freely to friends. Serene and rested last week he carried no salts, admitted that he often plays the piano for Hitler but denied the story that he does so whenever the Chancellor is tired. "If that were so I should be playing a great deal!" cried Nazi Hanfstaengl, "for he is tired often...
...provided by the North German Lloyd, dined uptown and went to a night club with Harvard friends bent on escorting him to the reunion at Cambridge of his class of 1909. "You call me 'Putzy' as you did at Harvard," he beamed, "but in Berlin they call me 'Hanfy Hanfstaengl...
...visited for eleven years, citizens, puzzled by elaborate preparations for they knew not what, jumped to a conclusion that Crown Prince Umberto was coming. Germans supposed their Chancellor was still in the Fatherland until their Press told them that he was already soaring over the Alps. Rome stressed that Berlin had asked for the meeting. Berlin tried to give an opposite impression by releasing press handouts explaining Chancellor Hitler's departure, with the stipulation that they must be falsely datelined so as to seem to have come from Italy. For the big show 3,000 picked Fascist militia were...
...paper dollar. Young 5½s which have brought 91 were bringing 37 paper. Dawes bonds are worth more than Young bonds because they are backed by German customs and liquor revenues, tobacco, beer and sugar taxes. Meanwhile the Reichsbank, despite fresh batches of predictions from Berlin, Paris and London that the mark must now go off gold, maintained an attitude of stubborn insistence upon its so-called "gold standard" which has long been purely theoretical, since no one can get gold for marks. "We reject absolutely a devaluation policy!" barked Dr. Schacht. "Reports in the foreign Press regarding inflation...
...tell you that a Radcliffe girls, Class of 1000, was laughed at by this Sweinie, less than a year ago, at the Amerika Institute in Berlin, where she had, appeared in protest at haying been brutally beaten, kicked threatened, frightened near to death, and was black and blue from head to foot that very moment. She had been dragged from her hotel in her night robe, flung into a stone ice-cold cell, held there incommunicado for 28, hours "Bertillioned," beaten sneered at, threatened with sexual assault, witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there...