Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Sir Herbert blushed very red, and explained that the tank advertisements in the Berlin papers were really intended for South America where those papers had large circulation...
...Catholic priests quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the Berlin suburb of Hcnnigsdorf. There gathered 1,800 Catholic children, aged 10 to 16, on church property for their first spring festival. The field was bright with their church club banners, blazoned with pictures of the Blessed Virgin and other saints. Suddenly from nowhere marched a company of Hitler Jugend. The company marched clean through the crowd of children, seized a banner, about-faced and marched back again. At this show of big-boy force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station...
...greatest newspaper, somehow managed to survive. Older by 173 years than the House of Ullstein which took it over in 1914, 229 years older than Nazidom, as dignified as the London or the New York Times but far more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated 600 German newspapers...
...Carr Cutler, 1909 Class Marshal, remembered his pleasant post-graduate visit with "Putzy's" family in Munich. To the reunion invitation Professor Cutler added a personal note asking "Putzy" to be an aide and wear a silk hat and a frock coat again at Cambridge in June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words of mine what we Nazis...
Some of his old classmates were also looking forward last week to their reunion with "Putzy" with the greatest anticipation. There was Radio Newsman Hans von Kaltenborn, whose 17-year-old son was standing on a Berlin curb when a Nazi storm trooper slapped him for not saluting the Nazi flag carried by a passing detachment (TIME, Sept. 18). There were also several well-known U. S. Jewish classmates, including Lee Simonson, famed scenic artist, and Edwin Isaak Marks, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Other "Putzy" classmates: Boston Post Publisher Richard Grozier; Francis B. Biddle...